Italy: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Verona has one driving restriction on our books: the Zona a Traffico Limitato (ZTL) (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-21, from Comune di Verona — Direzione Polizia Locale e Protezione Civile. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-20.
Verona's historic centre, inside the inner bend of the Adige, has been a limited traffic zone since 1997, and since 2005 eleven camera gates photograph every number plate entering it and send the picture straight to the municipal police. What decides whether you may drive in is not a payment but whether your plate is on a list.
Guests of a hotel or other registered accommodation inside the zone circulate freely once the property has passed the plate on — and the city states in the same breath that this does not extend to short-term tourist lets. Bicycles, mopeds, two- and three-wheeled motorcycles and vehicles carrying a disabled person's badge are not restricted at all.
Everybody else needs an authorisation obtained beforehand: since 28 October 2024 a car belonging to somebody living in Verona or its province is allowed at most four booked entries a month, in published windows, and a visitor who is not a hotel guest has to ask the operator's permit desk. Vehicles over 5.5 tonnes laden are normally barred outright.