Driving in Quattro Castella

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The short answer for Quattro Castella

Quattro Castella has one driving restriction on our books: the Misure in materia di qualità dell'aria. Piano Aria Integrato Regionale… (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?

What it means for your car

Petrol or LPG. 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. 🔑 As in the neighbouring Fidenza and Mirandola records there is nothing for these four lines to hold steady against: the order has one vehicle list and one window, so Euro 2 is the line at every hour of the season for all four.
Diesel. Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 — point 1, third indent, "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, and that answer holds for every hour the scheme is in force. 🚨 A reader who has seen the Modena, Piacenza or Maranello records should note that the Euro 5 extension in them is absent here. Those orders reach Euro 5 diesel on ecological Sundays or on emergency days by cross-referring their emergency article; this order has no Sunday measure and its emergency article reaches only the spreading of livestock slurry, so there is nothing for a wider vehicle list to attach to and none exists in the act. ⚠️ And a reader who has seen that Italian national law set a structural Euro 5 diesel limitation from 1 October 2026 should note that it does not reach this comune, for the same reason it does not reach Fidenza or Mirandola and NOT for the reason the Piacenza record gives. The duty in Legge n. 105 of 18 July 2025, as enacted for this region by L.R. n. 9 of 28/07/2026 article 15 paragraph 1, is addressed to comuni with more than 100,000 inhabitants, and the regional decision DGR n. 1505 of 07/09/2026 that this preamble recites identified its compensating measures for exactly that set. Quattro Castella is a comune of the Colline Matildiche well below the threshold; unlike Mirandola's and Fidenza's, this order does not print its own population figure, so no number is stated here. What is stated, and sourced, is that the national and regional Euro 5 limitation is addressed to comuni over 100,000 inhabitants and that this order imposes no Euro 5 restriction of its own.

Sources last read on 2026-09-28, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-28.

The schemes, one by one

• Misure in materia di qualità dell'aria. Piano Aria Integrato Regionale… Low emission zone

  Quattro Castella closes FOUR separate built-up areas to older vehicles for the winter half of the year: the main town and the villages of Montecavolo, Roncolo and Puianello.

  The ban runs Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30, and it 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.

  Nothing is on sale: there is no day ticket, no charge and no payable derogation. 🚨 Two things about this order are unlike every other Emilia-Romagna record in this corpus, and both are things a reader would otherwise fill in from a neighbour. First, IT NAMES NO FINE FOR DRIVING.

  Its sanctions article says only that breaches of the road-traffic provisions are penalised "ai sensi delle disposizioni dettate dal Codice della Strada" — under the Highway Code, with no article and no figure — and the one range it does print, €25 to €500 under article 7-bis of D.Lgs. 267/2000, is expressly for the order's OTHER measures, not for driving.

  Three neighbouring orders print €168 to €679; this one does not, and neither those figures nor the €25 to €500 belong to a driver here. Second, ITS LIST OF SUSPENDED DAYS IS EXPRESSLY AN EXAMPLE, NOT A CALENDAR: "sospeso nei giorni di festività: es. 1° novembre, 8 dicembre, Natale, Santo Stefano, ecc." — with "es." for "for example" and "ecc." for "and so on".

  Every other order in this family names a closed list. This one cannot be turned into a complete calendar without inventing the rest of it, and this record does not. 🔑 There is no Sunday measure and no Saturday measure, and the phrase "domeniche ecologiche" appears once, in the preamble, reciting what the regional Move-In scheme does where a comune has adopted ecological Sundays "ove adottate con specifica ordinanza".

  This comune has not. Nor does the ban widen when the air is bad: Arpae's bulletin triggers only a ban on spreading livestock slurry, so a Euro 5 diesel is outside this scheme at every hour of the season. Four road itineraries stay open right through the restricted areas, including the SS 63 trunk road over the Cerreto pass.

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