Italy: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
San Lazzaro di Savena has one driving restriction on our books: the Limitazioni alla circolazione a San Lazzaro di Savena (BO)… (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?
Sources last read on 2026-10-01, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-30.
San Lazzaro di Savena, a comune of the Città Metropolitana di Bologna, closes two separate built-up areas to older vehicles for the 2026-2027 winter under Ordinanza sindacale n. 21/2026, signed by the Mayor, Marilena Pillati, on 29 September 2026 and published by Arpae Emilia-Romagna.
There is no charge and no permit to buy: a vehicle is either allowed in or it is not. 🔑 THE SUNDAY RULE IS STRICTER THAN THE WEEKDAY RULE, AND THAT IS THE THING A DRIVER HERE MOST NEEDS TO KNOW. Monday to Friday, 08:30–18:30, the ban reaches diesel up to Euro 4.
On the order's twenty-five named ecological Sundays, in the same window, it reaches diesel up to Euro 5 — one generation further. The petrol, LPG/petrol, methane/petrol, moped and motorcycle lists are identical in both: Euro 0 to Euro 2. A diesel Euro 5 may therefore drive through the zone on a Tuesday and may not on the Sunday after it. 🔑 AND THE SUNDAYS ARE PRINTED AS DATES, NOT AS A FORMULA.
Point 3 lists twenty-five of them, 04/10/2026 through 21/03/2027. Recomputing the calendar rather than trusting the count: the season contains twenty-six Sundays and exactly one is absent from the list, 28 March 2027 — which is Easter Sunday, computed, and which point 2 separately names among the suspended days. Two independent mechanisms in the order say the same thing about that one date.
This matters beyond San Lazzaro: Carpi, read a day earlier, defines its Sundays as a class and leaves the PAIR recital's "4 domeniche al mese" unreconciled, so its calendar is a reading. San Lazzaro's is a quotation. The zone is two disjoint pieces — the built-up area of San Lazzaro di Savena itself and the built-up area of Ponticella — drawn on two annexed plans that the order makes part of itself.
Twelve named road itineraries are carved out of the ban so that the park-and-ride car parks stay reachable. Emergency measures, when Arpae's bulletin calls for them, widen the window to 08:00–19:00, add diesel Euro 5 to the weekday list and run on Saturdays and Sundays too. ⚠️ Move-In does not help on a Sunday.
Point 11(d) exempts vehicles enrolled in the regional Move-In telematics scheme "solo relativamente alle limitazioni strutturali di cui al punto 1" — the Monday-to-Friday ban only. On an ecological Sunday and under emergency measures the enrolment buys nothing.
The fine for breaching the circulation limits is an administrative penalty of €168.00 to €679.00, with the licence suspended for fifteen to thirty days on a repeat within two years.