Piacenza, Italy · Low emission zone
Official name Divieto di circolazione dinamica nel centro abitato della città di Piacenza — misure antismog 2026/2027 in attuazione del PAIR 2030 (Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 704 del 25-09-2026)
Partly in force in Piacenza right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Rome
Lifts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30 local time.
🚨 The Sunday rule above is an encoding of a closed list of twenty dates, not of a recurring pattern, and it only reproduces that list because the season boundary, the whole of December, 1 November 2026 and 3 January 2027 are all excluded. It was checked date by date against the order on 2026-09-28: the season holds twenty-six Sundays, those six exclusions remove six, and the twenty that remain are the twenty the order names. If the order is re-issued for another season, this rule must be re-derived from the new list rather than carried over — the dates are named individually and a later order need not follow the same shape.
Saturday carries no rule because the order never names Saturday in its circulation article. That is not the same as an express exemption, and it holds only while the emergency measures are off.
The emergency measures are not in this timetable and cannot be. Arpae issues the bulletin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or on the next working day where a control day is a holiday; when it forecasts a PM10 exceedance at any station in the province of Piacenza the ban runs 08:00–19:00 from the following day until the next control day inclusive, and reaches diesel Euro 5. Check the bulletin for the day you travel.
Strike days are not in this timetable for the same reason: the order lifts the ban on any day of a local public transport strike, and those are called at short notice.
⚠️ This timetable is a clock and a vehicle list. It says nothing about where you are: the three excluded localities of Besurica, Montale and Le Mose and the thirty-five excluded roads are not encoded here, and a vehicle on the banned list is outside the ban in those places at every hour in this table.
The order's other measures are outside this timetable because they are not about driving: the heating-season start date of 1 November 2026, the indoor temperature limits, the biomass and open-burning rules, the pellet certification duty and the standing ban on idling a parked engine all run on their own periods.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Piacenza closes its built-up area to older vehicles for the winter half of the year, from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027.
Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30, the ban catches petrol cars up to and including Euro 2, LPG/petrol and methane/petrol up to and including Euro 2, diesel cars up to and including Euro 4, and mopeds and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2. 🚨 On top of that the order names twenty individual Sundays — "domeniche ecologiche" — on which the same hours apply and the diesel line moves one class further to catch Euro 5 as well.
This is the point where Piacenza parts company with its neighbours: the Sunday ban here is a closed list of dates, not "every Sunday", and there is no ecological Sunday at all in December. Nothing is on sale. There is no day ticket, no charge and no payable derogation — a banned car does not become admissible by paying.
It is a mayoral order under articles 5, 6 and 7 of the Italian Highway Code implementing the region's air-quality plan, the PAIR 2030, and it is re-issued every year. Three things make it survivable for a visitor whose car is on the list.
The order excludes three whole neighbourhoods inside the perimeter — Besurica, Montale and Le Mose — on the express ground that they are not yet sufficiently served by public transport.
It excludes some thirty-five named roads and stretches so that traffic arriving from outside does not have to cross the city and can reach the park-and-ride sites, among them the whole Tangenziale Sud, Via Emilia Parmense, Via Caorsana and Via Cremona.
And a guest staying at hotel-type accommodation inside the restricted area is exempt for the journey to and from the accommodation itself, on a booking or on a later attestation. Electric and hybrid vehicles, cars carrying at least three people, and vehicles registered for specific transport or special uses are outside the ban altogether.
The ban is on circulation — the order says "circolazione dinamica" — so it is driving, not parking, that is caught.
Comune di Piacenza — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 704 del 25-09-2026, published by Arpae Emilia-Romagna, the regional agency that collects the implementing ordinances of every municipality bound by the PAIR 2030
Nothing is charged and nothing is on sale. The order bans the listed classes from circulating and then lists the vehicles, areas, roads and journeys that are excluded; there is no day ticket, no registration fee and no payable derogation a visitor could buy.
The one route by which a banned vehicle can be authorised is Move-In, the regional telematics scheme: the order's closing paragraph excludes from the Monday-to-Friday ban vehicles that have joined Move-In, which fits a black box and allows a monitored annual mileage allowance instead of a flat prohibition, on the terms of Annexes A, B and C to regional decision DGR n. 1493 of 22/09/2025.
The limit of that exemption is written into the same sentence and it is sharper than it first reads — Move-In vehicles "restano soggetti alle limitazioni delle domeniche ecologiche e alle limitazioni emergenziali", so the black box does nothing on any of the twenty ecological Sundays and nothing while the emergency measures are running.
Move-In is in any case a scheme for vehicles registered in the participating regions rather than something a foreign visitor can buy on arrival. Neither the order nor the regional decision states a price in the documents read here, so none is given.
Seasonal, and the season had not yet begun when this was read. The ban runs from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. Monday to Friday the window is 08:30 to 18:30 — "dal lunedì al venerdì dalle 08,30 alle 18,30". 🚨 Sundays are a closed list of dates, not a weekday rule.
The order names twenty "domeniche ecologiche", each also 08:30 to 18:30: 4, 11, 18 and 25 October 2026; 8, 15, 22 and 29 November 2026; 10, 17, 24 and 31 January 2027; 7, 14, 21 and 28 February 2027; and 7, 14, 21 and 28 March 2027. 🔑 December has no ecological Sunday at all, and neither does the first Sunday of January, and that gap is not an oversight — the order's own preamble cites article 12 paragraph 2 of the Technical Implementation Rules of the PAIR 2030, which sets ecological Sundays at "4 domeniche al mese, con possibilità di sospensione dal 1° dicembre al 6 gennaio e nei giorni di festività", four Sundays a month with the option of suspending them from 1 December to 6 January and on public holidays.
The arithmetic closes exactly: the season holds twenty-six Sundays, five of them fall inside the 1 December to 6 January window and one is 1 November, a holiday the order separately lists as suspended, which leaves the twenty that are named. Saturday carries no ordinary ban — the order simply never names it in the circulation article.
The whole of point 1, weekdays and ecological Sundays alike, is lifted on days when local public transport is on strike and on seven named days: 1 November, 8 December, 25 December and 26 December 2026, and 1 January, 6 January and 29 March 2027. ⚠️ Note what that list does and does not cover in March: 29 March 2027 is exempt, but 28 March 2027 is one of the twenty ecological Sundays, so the ban applies on that Sunday and not on the Monday after it.
Separately from all of this, the region's emergency measures can be triggered on any day of the week: they run 08:00 to 19:00, reach diesel Euro 5, start the day after a control day and last until the next control day inclusive.
Arpae issues that bulletin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or on the next working day where a control day is a holiday, and it is triggered by a forecast exceedance of the PM10 threshold at even one station anywhere in the province of Piacenza — not only in the city.
Comune di Piacenza — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 704 del 25-09-2026, points 1 and 2, with the preamble's citation of article 12 paragraph 2 of the PAIR 2030 Norme Tecniche di Attuazione for why December is empty
The centro abitato of Piacenza — the built-up area, not the whole municipality and not merely the historic centre. The order does not draw it: it adopts a perimeter fixed long before, "nel centro abitato della città di Piacenza individuato, ai sensi dell'art. 3, comma 1, punto 8) e dell'art.
4 del D.Lgs. 30.04.1992, n. 285, con D.G.C. n.
216/2002", a council decision of 2002, shown on the plan annexed as Allegato 1. 🔑 Three named places inside that perimeter are cut out of the ban altogether, and the order states the reason in its own words — Località Besurica, Località Montale and Località Le Mose, "in quanto non sono al momento sufficientemente servite dal trasporto pubblico locale", because they are not at present sufficiently served by local public transport.
That is an exemption by neighbourhood rather than by route, and it has no counterpart in the Modena order. Separately, so that vehicles arriving from outside do not have to cross the city to get somewhere else and can reach the car parks served by shuttle or scheduled bus, the order excludes about thirty-five roads and stretches by name (Allegato 2): Via E.
Pavese, Via Einaudi, Via I° Maggio between Via Einaudi and Via Emilia Pavese, the bretella Strada Gragnana–Via Einaudi, the prolungamento and the whole of the Tangenziale Sud, Strada Agazzana, Strada Bobbiese, Strada Val Nure, Via Gorra between Strada Val Nure and Largo Anguissola, Via Motti, Via Martiri della Resistenza between Via Motti and Via Manfredi, Via Manfredi between Via Martiri della Resistenza and Via Gorra, Via Delle Novate, Via Emilia Parmense, Via Colombo, Piazzale Roma, Via La Primogenita, Viale S.
Ambrogio, Piazzale Milano, Via Emilia in the Milan direction (S.S.
9), Via Legione Zanardi Landi, Via Maculani, Via XXI Aprile, Piazzale Torino, Via del Pontiere between Via Nino Bixio and Via XXI Aprile through the railway underpass on the Piacenza–Alessandria line, Via Nino Bixio between Via del Pontiere and Via Diete di Roncaglia, Via Diete di Roncaglia, Via Caorsana, Via Cremona, the new Cavalcaferrovia between Via Diete di Roncaglia and Via XXI Aprile, Via Portapuglia and Via Borgoforte. ⚠️ Only the named roads and stretches are excluded, not the neighbourhoods they run through, and several of them are excluded only between two named cross-streets.
The perimeter itself cannot be reproduced here as geometry: both plans are published as drawings with no text and no coordinate system, which is recorded under boundary_coverage.
Comune di Piacenza — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 704 del 25-09-2026, the ORDINA article and the two lists of exclusions, with Allegato 1 (area) and Allegato 2 (vie percorribili)
The authority's own map: Comune di Piacenza
Petrol cars of Euro 0, Euro 1 and Euro 2 are banned — "veicoli alimentati a benzina EURO 0, EURO 1 ed EURO 2, non conformi alla direttiva 98/69/A CE e successive o alla direttiva 99/96/A CE e successive" — so a petrol car needs to be Euro 3 or better. Bi-fuel vehicles running on LPG/petrol or methane/petrol are treated identically and banned up to and including Euro 2.
Mopeds are banned up to and including Euro 2 where they do not comply with Directive 2013/60/EC or later, and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2 where they do not comply with Directive 2003/77/EC or later.
None of these four lines moves anywhere in the scheme: petrol, bi-fuel, mopeds and motorcycles are caught at Euro 2 on weekdays, on the twenty ecological Sundays and while the emergency measures are running alike. It is only the diesel line that moves.
Comune di Piacenza — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 704 del 25-09-2026, point 1 (weekday and ecological-Sunday lists) and point 2 letter a) (emergency list)
Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 from Monday to Friday — "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3 ed EURO 4 non conformi alla direttiva 2005/55/CE B2 e successive o alla direttiva 99/96 fase III oppure Riga B2 o C e successive" — so a diesel needs to be Euro 5 or better on a weekday. 🚨 On each of the twenty ecological Sundays the line moves one class further and Euro 5 is banned as well: "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3 ed EURO 4 ed EURO 5 non conformi al regolamento 715/2007*692/2008 (Euro 6 A o Euro 6 B)".
The same Euro 5 extension applies whenever the region's emergency measures are running, on any day of the week. A Euro 5 diesel is therefore legal here on a Tuesday and illegal on 18 October, and only a Euro 6 diesel is clear of every list. 🚨 And there is a second trap in this scheme that has nothing to do with the order itself.
National law had already set a deadline for Euro 5 diesel: the order's preamble cites Legge n. 105 of 18 July 2025, converting Decreto-Legge n.
73 of 21 May 2025, which requires air-quality plans to carry a structural limitation on Euro 5 diesel "a decorrere dal 1° ottobre 2026, in via prioritaria per i Comuni aventi popolazione maggiore di 100.000 abitanti" — from 1 October 2026, as a priority for municipalities over 100,000 inhabitants. Piacenza is one: the same order records a resident population of 102,364 at 31/12/2021.
Emilia-Romagna then legislated that limitation into force itself, at L.R. n. 9 of 28/07/2026 article 15 paragraph 1, for 1 October to 31 March each year, cars and N1/N2/N3 commercial vehicles, "dalle ore 8.30 alle ore 18.30, dal lunedì al venerdì" — the exact weekday window this scheme uses. 🔑 It is not in force, and the reason is in the same preamble.
Article 15 paragraph 7 of that regional law lets the Giunta substitute compensating measures, and DGR n.
1505 of 07/09/2026 did so "al fine di prescindere dall'attuazione della limitazione strutturale dei veicoli diesel euro 5" in Emilia-Romagna municipalities over 100,000 inhabitants, in exchange for three things: the heating season starting on 1 November, a biomass-heater ban during emergency measures, and widening the emergency circulation window to 08:00–19:00.
So a Euro 5 diesel driver who reads the national headline and concludes they are banned in Piacenza on weekdays from 1 October 2026 has it backwards, and the 08:00–19:00 emergency window they will meet instead is part of the price the region paid for that.
Comune di Piacenza — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 704 del 25-09-2026: point 1 for the weekday and ecological-Sunday lists, point 2 letter a) for the emergency list, and the preamble for the Legge 105/2025 → L.R. 9/2026 art. 15 → DGR 1505/2026 chain that leaves the Euro 5 structural limitation unapplied
🚨 A fine exists and the Comune does not state its amount — the absence here is ours, not the scheme's, and a driver should assume there is a fine and expect to be told the figure only when they receive one. The chain was followed and then deliberately stopped. The order's own sanctions clause is one sentence: non-observance "è punita con sanzione amministrativa in conformità alla L. n.
689/1981 e mediante pagamento della somma prevista dagli artt. 7 e 157 del D. Lgs.
30 aprile 1992, n. 285 in riferimento alle violazioni del Codice della strada" — a general reference to Law 689/1981 and to articles 7 and 157 of the Highway Code, with no figure, no range and no paragraph.
Article 7 of the Highway Code carries several different sanction paragraphs and article 157 is the stopping-and-parking article, so choosing which one a given entry is charged under would be this project's reading of the Code rather than the Comune's statement of its own penalty.
That matters more here than it would elsewhere, because the neighbouring Modena order for the same season does name a figure — a range of €168 to €679 under article 7 paragraph 13-bis — and copying it eighty kilometres up the Via Emilia would produce a precise, confident and unsourced number.
It is not carried across. ⚠️ One consequence of the order is worth more to a driver than the amount would be: "Nelle more transitorie di applicazione della presente ordinanza relativamente alle limitazioni alla circolazione veicolare, nelle attività di controllo vale la segnaletica verticale presente" — during the transitional period, enforcement goes on the signs actually standing at the roadside.
And the order requires any exemption badge or certificate to be displayed visibly and produced on request; improper use of one is itself grounds for its withdrawal.
On how likely enforcement is, the PAIR 2030 Technical Implementation Rules set a minimum in the preamble to this very order: article 12 paragraph 7 requires 1,200 checks a year in municipalities over 100,000 inhabitants, which is the band Piacenza's 102,364 residents fall into.
Comune di Piacenza — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 704 del 25-09-2026: point 1 for the season, the two clocks and the banned classes, point 2 for the emergency measures, the ORDINA article for the perimeter and the excluded localities and roads, and the exemption lists and AVVERTE article for the derogations and the display duty. The Euro 5 paragraph also rests on the preamble's citation of Legge n. 105/2025, L.R. n. 9/2026 article 15 and DGR n. 1505 of 07/09/2026
Comune di Piacenza — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 704 del 25-09-2026, "Riduzione delle emissioni inquinanti (da traffico stradale, climatizzazione, attività agricole) 2026-2027 in attuazione del Piano Aria Integrato Regionale (PAIR 2030) mediante interventi strutturali ed emergenziali", signed on 25/09/2026 and published by Arpae Emilia-Romagna, the regional agency that collects the implementing ordinances of every municipality bound by the PAIR 2030. This is the operative instrument: it fixes the season, the two clocks, the banned classes, the twenty ecological Sundays, the perimeter by reference, the excluded localities and roads, the exemptions and the sanctions clause
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Piacenza", the page in the regional agency's 2026-2027 ordinance index where the Comune di Piacenza's order and its two annexed plans are published and named. Cited as the publishing door: measured on 2026-09-28, the Comune's own site carries no page for this ordinance — www.comune.piacenza.it answers robots.txt with "Allow: /" and its sitemap.xml lists 1,156 URLs, none of which is an air-quality or antismog ordinance, so Arpae is where this act is actually readable
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Ordinanze 2026-2027", the index of implementing ordinances for the 2026/2027 season. Cited for where this record sits in the regional harvest: on 2026-09-22 Modena was the only municipality listed, and on 2026-09-28 the index carries three — Modena, Maranello (MO) and Piacenza — with the season opening on 1 October 2026
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Liberiamo l'aria", the regional portal for the antismog measures (www.liberiamolaria.it redirects here). Cited for the regional framework this order implements: the measures run from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027 across the lowland municipalities of Emilia-Romagna and the Bologna agglomeration, and each municipality over 30,000 inhabitants issues its own implementing ordinance
Comune di Piacenza — Allegato 1 to Ordinanza n. 704/2026, the plan of the area subject to the limitation, published by Arpae. Cited as the perimeter the order adopts by reference (the centro abitato delimited by D.G.C. n. 216/2002) and recorded as unusable for geometry: read on 2026-09-28 it is a single page with zero words and zero image objects, a vector drawing with no text layer, no scale statement and no coordinate reference system
Comune di Piacenza — Allegato 2 to Ordinanza n. 704/2026, the plan of the roads that remain drivable, published by Arpae. Cited alongside the order's own list of about thirty-five named roads and stretches, and recorded as unusable for geometry on the same measurement as Allegato 1
This rule ends on 2027-03-31, by the dates in the order itself. We do not re-check it after that — the page comes out of our index, and only a new order from the authority can put a rule for this road back on it.