Italy: don't drive into historic-centre limited traffic zones (ZTL)
- Park outside restricted zones and walk into town
- Driving into a ZTL zone without a permit
You will be fined.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Italy travel advice
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Italy
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Before you go
Lectura obligada antes de ir
Italy: validate your ticket before boarding
- Validate your ticket in the machine before using public transport
- Travelling with an unvalidated ticket
Inspectors will fine you on the spot.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Italy travel advice
Italy: don't buy from unlicensed street vendors
- Shop at proper stores
- Buying from unlicensed street vendors
It is illegal, and local police may stop and fine you.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Italy travel advice
Italy: rules around monuments and fountains
- Keep the area around monuments clean and quiet
- Going into or splashing in public fountains (Florence, Rome and elsewhere)
- Swimming in Venice's canals
- Eating and drinking next to major churches, monuments and public buildings
- Sitting on monument steps, littering, or scratching or writing on monuments
All are local offences; urinating in public can bring a fine of up to €10,000.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Italy travel advice
Rome's Spanish Steps: no sitting, eating or drinking
- Walk up the steps and keep moving after your photo
- Sitting, resting, eating or drinking on the steps
Banned by Rome's urban police regulations since 2019; media report fines of €250, rising to €400 for dirtying or damaging the steps.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: ANSA: Rome bans sitting on the Spanish Steps (2019)
Festivals
Fiestas y celebraciones
Places & local life
Lugares emblemáticos, rincones ocultos y vida local
Colosseum
The heart of the empire, where gladiators' cries still seem to echo among the arches
Neapolitan pizza
The original soft, thin pizza with a puffy rim — though the Margherita story may have been made up later.
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Doge's Palace
The seat of power of the Venetian Republic: the doge's residence, council chambers, courts and prisons were all in this Gothic palace.
St Mark's Basilica
The Venetian Republic's 'state chapel': golden mosaic domes and four bronze horses brought back from Constantinople.
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Pantheon
A concrete dome almost two thousand years old, still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, with sunlight pouring in through the o…
Italian coffee bars
An espresso knocked back standing at the bar is how Italians start the day.