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ZTL zones in Lazio

Lazio has 19 towns and cities with a Limited Traffic Zone on this map, covering 19 zones in total. Pick a destination to see its restricted area and plan where to park.

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Driving in Lazio

Lazio is Rome and everything Rome has gathered around it. Nineteen towns in the region restrict their centres, and one of them accounts for a large share of every ZTL fine collected from visitors to Italy. The rest are the hill towns, lake towns and coastal towns within an hour or two of the capital — the places people drive out to for a day and drive into without thinking.

The road network radiates from the city. The Grande Raccordo Anulare, the ring motorway, encircles Rome about ten kilometres out, and the consular roads — the Aurelia, Cassia, Flaminia, Salaria, Casilina and Appia — run outwards from it, most still following their Roman alignments. Almost any drive in Lazio touches the GRA at some point.

Rome is not one zone

Rome’s restrictions are the most complex in the country and the commonest single reason a visitor’s holiday ends with a letter. The centre is divided into several separate ZTLs — the Centro Storico and Trastevere among them — each with its own boundary and its own hours, and some add night-time restrictions at weekends on top of the daytime ones.

There is no single rule to carry in your head, which is precisely the problem: knowing that one zone is inactive on a Sunday tells you nothing about the one beside it. Rome has its own page here, linked above. The short version for anyone driving is to treat the historic centre inside the Aurelian walls as closed unless you have specific reason to think otherwise, and to remember that a hotel inside it can usually register your plate for the nights you are staying.

The hill towns and the Castelli Romani

South-east of the city the Alban Hills hold the Castelli Romani — Frascati, Ariccia and their neighbours — small towns on volcanic slopes whose old centres were never built for cars. Both Frascati and Ariccia restrict theirs. These are the classic Sunday-lunch destinations, busiest at exactly the times a visitor is most likely to be driving out for the afternoon.

Tivoli, east of Rome, is the other one to watch. Its medieval centre is restricted on a split schedule — mornings and then again in the evening, with a different pattern on Sundays and seasonal variation on top — and the two villas that bring people there sit in different places relative to the zone. Work out which one you are heading for before you set off, not on arrival.

North to the Tuscia, south to the coast

Viterbo, the largest town in northern Lazio, restricts its centre overnight and for a longer stretch at weekends — the reverse of the usual pattern, and easy to get wrong if you arrive for dinner. The medieval San Pellegrino quarter, which is the reason most people come, lies entirely inside the restricted area.

On the coast, Gaeta and Terracina restrict their old centres. Latina — a planned town laid out in the 1930s on the drained Pontine Marshes, and so built quite unlike anywhere else in the region — runs a long summer schedule that shortens in winter. Rieti, in the mountains to the north-east, restricts around the clock.

ZTL guides for Lazio 2

Other ZTL towns in Lazio 17

These towns have a Limited Traffic Zone shown on the map. Hours are listed where they are known; otherwise follow the link to the official source and the road signs.

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