Quattro Castella, Italy · Low emission zone
Official name Misure in materia di qualità dell'aria. Piano Aria Integrato Regionale (PAIR 2030) — divieto di circolazione nelle aree dei centri abitati di Quattro Castella, Montecavolo, Roncolo e Puianello (Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026)
In force in Quattro Castella right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Rome
Lifts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30 local time.
🚨 THIS TIMETABLE IS INCOMPLETE AND THE ORDER IS WHY. Point 1.1 suspends the ban on public holidays and gives four as examples, closing with "ecc.". Every other Emilia-Romagna order in this corpus names a closed list that can be encoded in full. This one cannot be, and a later cycle that completes it — whether from the Italian national holiday calendar or from a neighbour's list — would be publishing a rule the Comune has not written.
🚨 There is exactly one rule here and that is the finding, not an omission. Three of the four neighbouring Emilia-Romagna records for the same season carry a second rule for Sundays; this order has no Sunday measure, no Saturday measure and no emergency measure for traffic. Adding a Sunday rule from a neighbour would invent a restriction, which is the more damaging direction of the two.
⚠️ The Sunday absence was measured scoped, not over the whole file. A search for "domenic" across this PDF returns [OK], because the preamble recites the regional Move-In rule about ecological Sundays "ove adottate con specifica ordinanza". Over the ORDINA section the word does not occur. This is the same shape as the sibling Mirandola record and the opposite of Fidenza's, where the word is absent from the whole document.
The emergency measure is not in this timetable because it is not about driving. Arpae issues its bulletin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the order attaches to it a single measure, a ban on spreading livestock slurry across the province of Reggio Emilia. The vehicle ban above does not change on those days.
⚠️ This timetable is a clock and says nothing about where you are. The ban applies in four separate built-up areas and four road itineraries are excluded from it, including the SS 63 trunk road, so a vehicle on the banned list can be lawfully moving 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 of 1 November 2026, the indoor temperature limits, the biomass and open-burning rules, the pellet certification duty and the shop-door closing duty all run on their own periods and across the whole municipality.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
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.
Comune di Quattro Castella (RE) — Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026, signed digitally by the Mayor, Alberto Olmi, and published by Arpae Emilia-Romagna, the regional agency that collects the implementing ordinances of the municipalities 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 and journeys 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, 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.
As in the neighbouring Fidenza and Mirandola records, this order does not itself grant Move-In: point 7 letter d) excludes Move-In vehicles from the ban "come disposto dall'ordinanza n. 078 del 30.09.2025", a separate act of the same Comune which was not opened for this record and is not cited as a source here.
Move-In is a scheme for vehicles registered in the participating Italian regions rather than something a foreign visitor can buy on arrival, and 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 Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30 — point 1, "nel periodo 01/10/2026 – 31/03/2027, dal lunedì al venerdì, dalle 8.30 alle 18.30, il DIVIETO DI CIRCOLAZIONE NELLE AREE DEI CENTRI ABITATI DI QUATTRO CASTELLA, MONTECAVOLO, RONCOLO E PUIANELLO". ⚠️ The order gives its own end date twice and the two do not agree.
Its subject line, repeated on the publication certificate, reads "PERIODO 01.10.2026 - 30.03.2027"; its three operative points — 1, 2 and 6 — all read "01/10/2026 – 31/03/2027".
This record follows the operative text and takes 31 March 2027, because that is where the prohibition is actually imposed and because the three operative points agree with each other and with the regional plan's own season, but the discrepancy is in the document and is set out here rather than tidied away. 🚨 The list of suspended days is the part of this timetable that cannot be completed, and the order says so itself.
Point 1.1: "il divieto alla circolazione di cui al presente punto è sospeso nei giorni di festività: es. 1° novembre, 8 dicembre, Natale, Santo Stefano, ecc." — "es." is esempio, "for example", and "ecc." is eccetera. The ban is suspended on public holidays generally; the four days quoted are illustrations, not the set.
Every other order in this family names a closed list. What can be stated with certainty is that those four are suspended, and that two of them — 1 November 2026, a Sunday, and 26 December 2026, a Saturday — suspend nothing here because this order bans nothing at the weekend. Which other days count is left open by the order and is not guessed at in this record. 🔑 There is no Sunday measure and no Saturday measure.
The word "domenica" occurs once in the whole act, in the preamble, reciting that a Move-In vehicle may not drive "in occasione delle domeniche ecologiche, ove adottate con specifica ordinanza" — a conditional about the regional scheme, not an adoption.
And there is no emergency window: Arpae's bulletin, issued on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and read "nell'ambito territoriale della Provincia di Reggio Emilia", triggers one measure only, a ban on spreading livestock slurry.
The clock above does not move when the air is bad and the vehicle list does not widen. ⚠️ Do not read the 08:00–19:00 emergency window of the Modena, Piacenza and Maranello records onto this comune. ⚠️ Unlike all four neighbouring orders, this one says nothing about local public transport strikes.
Comune di Quattro Castella (RE) — Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026, point 1 for the window and point 1.1 for the suspended days, point 6 for the single emergency measure, and the subject line and publication certificate for the conflicting end date
FOUR separate built-up areas, not one. Point 1 bans circulation "NELLE AREE DEI CENTRI ABITATI DI QUATTRO CASTELLA, MONTECAVOLO, RONCOLO E PUIANELLO all'interno del Comune di Quattro Castella come da planimetria costituente l'allegato n.
1" — the main town and three villages, each with its own delimited built-up area. 🔑 That is the opposite of the neighbouring Mirandola order, which restricts its capoluogo and nothing else, and it means a driver can leave the restricted area and re-enter it several times on one journey across this municipality.
Each of the four names is independently confirmed on the published plan, which labels QUATTRO CASTELLA, Montecavolo, Roncolo and Puianello. 🔑 Four road itineraries are excluded from the ban and stay open to banned vehicles, and unlike the park-and-ride approaches excluded in Fidenza and Modena these are through-routes: provincial road SP 21 "Albinea – Montecavolo"; SP 23 "Rivalta – Quattro Castella – Vezzanella"; SP 53 "Montecchio – Bibbiano – Quattro Castella", limited to the stretch between the boundary with the Comune di Bibbiano and the roundabout junction with SP 23 at Via Staffette Partigiane; and the trunk road SS 63 "del Valico del Cerreto", the main route from the Po plain over the Apennines to Tuscany.
A banned vehicle may drive those four and nothing else inside the four areas. ⚠️ The plan is published as a separate PDF and it was opened, and what it turned out to be matters for how much of it can be used. It contains no raster image at all — scripts/pdf-images.py reports zero image objects in 1.37 MB — because it is a vector drawing exported from AutoCAD.
It carries a printed scale, "SCALA 1:10.000", with no reduction disclaimer of the kind that voids the scale on several Greek plans in this corpus. But it carries no coordinate reference system: no UTM, WGS, Gauss-Boaga, EPSG or cadastral grid reference appears anywhere in its text.
Without one, a scale bar is not enough to place the drawn boundary on the ground to the accuracy that deciding an offence would require, so no geometry has been taken from it. 🚫 Its labels are not a list of restricted streets either.
The drawing carries 588 text labels, 370 of them distinct, including 167 beginning "Via" — but those are the cartographic labelling of the whole sheet, inside the areas and outside them alike, and nothing in the plan marks which of them the boundary encloses. None is published here as a street in the zone.
Comune di Quattro Castella (RE) — Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026, point 1 for the four built-up areas and point 1.2 for the four excluded itineraries, read with Allegato 1, the plan published as a separate PDF
The authority's own map: Comune di Quattro Castella (RE)
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.
Comune di Quattro Castella (RE) — Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026, point 1, first, second, fourth and fifth indents
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.
Comune di Quattro Castella (RE) — Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026, point 1 third indent for the ban, and the preamble for the L. 105/2025 → L.R. 9/2026 → DGR 1505/2026 chain and the 100,000-inhabitant threshold it is addressed to
🚨 A fine exists and this order does not state its amount, so a driver should assume there is one and expect to learn the figure only if they receive it. The absence here is the Comune's drafting, not a gap in this project's reading, and none is supplied from elsewhere.
Its sanctions article says only that "l'inosservanza alle prescrizioni in materia di circolazione stradale di cui al presente provvedimento sarà sanzionata ai sensi delle disposizioni dettate dal Codice della Strada e le modalità di pagamento e di ricorso sono quelle in esso previste" — under the Highway Code, with no article cited and no figure. ⚠️ The order DOES print a money range in the same article, and it is the wrong one to take: "l'inosservanza delle altre misure previste dalla presente Ordinanza sindacale sarà punita, ai sensi dell'art.
7 bis del D. Lgs. n.
267/2000, con una sanzione amministrativa pecuniaria da € 25,00 a € 500,00" — expressly the OTHER measures, meaning the heating, pellet and shop-door duties, not driving.
Two further figures in the article belong to named non-driving breaches: €50 to €500 for installing climate-control plant in the common parts of a building and for failing to keep shop doors closed, and €300 to €3,000 under article 10 paragraph 4 of D.L.
69/2023 for the open-burning breaches in points 2.2 and 2.3. 🔑 Three of the four neighbouring Emilia-Romagna orders for this same season print €168 to €679 for the driving offence under article 7 paragraph 13-bis of the Highway Code, and Piacenza's does not.
This one is the second that does not, and the absence was measured in both directions rather than inferred from a skim: the strings "168" and "679" both return [MISS] against the live PDF in a run where thirteen other needles from the same file return [OK], so no such figure is in the document. Thirty kilometres along the Via Emilia is not a source.
Enforcement is delegated to the Polizia Locale, the officers and agents of the judicial police, the volunteer ecological guards (GEV) and Legambiente's volunteer guards (GEL), and the Comune di Quattro Castella in the person of the Mayor is named as the authority for the penalty procedure.
Comune di Quattro Castella (RE) — Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026: point 1 for the ban, the window, the four areas and the vehicle classes, point 1.1 for the suspended days, point 1.2 for the open itineraries, point 6 for the emergency measure, points 7 and 8 for the exempt vehicles and the DISPONE and AVVERTE articles for the penalties
Comune di Quattro Castella (RE) — Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026, "MISURE IN MATERIA DI QUALITA' DELL'ARIA. PIANO ARIA INTEGRATO REGIONALE (PAIR 2030)", signed digitally by the Mayor, Alberto Olmi, on 23-09-2026 at 09:34 and published at the Albo Pretorio under n. 912 from 23-09-2026 to 08-10-2026, and by Arpae Emilia-Romagna. This is the operative instrument: it fixes the season, the single weekday window, the four built-up areas, the four excluded itineraries, the banned classes, the exemptions, the exemplary holiday list and the penalties
Comune di Quattro Castella (RE) — Allegato 1 to Ordinanza Sindacale n. 68 del 23-09-2026, the planimetria, published as a separate PDF. A one-sheet vector drawing exported from AutoCAD at a printed scale of 1:10.000, showing the four restricted built-up areas and the excluded road stretches. Cited for the two-class structure of the scheme and for confirming the four place names; no geometry is taken from it, because it carries no coordinate reference system
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Ordinanza del Comune di Quattro Castella (RE)", the page in the regional agency's index where this order and its annex are published. ⚠️ Note which index this is: not the one carrying Modena, Piacenza and Maranello, but the separate list of ordinances of the plain municipalities UNDER 30,000 inhabitants
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Ordinanze comuni pianura", the index of implementing ordinances for the plain municipalities under 30,000 inhabitants. Cited for where this record sits: on 2026-09-28 the index carried six municipalities — Brescello (RE), Castellarano (RE), Coriano (RN), Fidenza (PR), Mirandola (MO) and Quattro Castella (RE) — every one of them a 2026 ordinance, and Brescello, Castellarano and Coriano remain unread
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.