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Driving in Italy
The rules of the road as our desk recorded them, native unit first.
Right
50 / 90 / 130 km/h · 31 / 56 / 81 mph
urban / rural / motorway
Recommended · Both accepted
EU licences are fine as they are. Non-EU licences legally require an IDP alongside, and rental desks and police do ask.
0.05% (0.00% for drivers under 21 or with under three years of licence)
Extensive tolled autostrade - take a ticket, pay at the exit. Telepass lanes are for subscribers only and using one by mistake is a fine.
Low beams mandatory at all times outside built-up areas.
Mandatory under 150 cm or 12 years; rentals stock them.
The ZTL zones are the thing to understand before you turn a key here - camera-enforced restricted centres in nearly every historic town, with fines that arrive months later. Mountain roads in the Dolomites and on the Amalfi coast are narrow and busy; the Amalfi coast in particular is not a relaxing drive in season.