ZTL zones in Piedmont
Piedmont (Piemonte) has 25 towns and cities with a Limited Traffic Zone on this map, covering 25 zones in total. Pick a destination to see its restricted area and plan where to park.
Driving in Piedmont
Piedmont means the foot of the mountains, and the name is exact: the Alps wrap round the region on three sides, and everything else is the plain of the Po, which rises here. It is Italy’s second-largest region and one of the least visited by car despite being the first many drivers enter, since the tunnels and passes from France and Switzerland come out in it.
Twenty-four towns restrict their centres. Turin’s zone covers the central grid on weekday mornings only, which is unusually narrow as Italian restrictions go, but Novara, Vercelli and Asti all run theirs around the clock, and Cuneo restricts overnight with its main street closed permanently. The rest are the wine towns of the Langhe and Monferrato, the alpine resorts, and the lake towns on Maggiore and Orta.
Turin is easier than it looks
Turin was laid out by the Savoys on a Roman grid and extended in straight lines, so it is one of the most navigable large cities in Italy — wide boulevards, long sightlines, and arcaded streets that make sense from behind a wheel. Its central ZTL operates on weekday mornings and not at all on Saturdays, which means an afternoon or weekend arrival often finds the centre open.
That is a trap in its own way, because the hours are easy to half-remember. If you are arriving on a weekday morning, park outside and take the metro or a tram in; the network is good and the centre is compact enough that you will not need the car again until you leave.
The wine towns are small and worth walking
Alba, Bra, Chieri, Mondovì and Casale Monferrato sit in the hills south and east of Turin, in the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato — vineyard country, and a landscape of ridge-top villages with a castle or a church at the top and one road up. The old centres are tiny. Walking from a car park at the bottom to the main square is a matter of minutes.
Alba fills up during the truffle fair in autumn, and Bra and the surrounding villages during the food festivals, at which point both the traffic and the enforcement tighten. If you are visiting for an event, assume the centre is closed to you and look for the signed visitor parking on the approach rather than driving in to find out.
Mountains, lakes and the way in from France
Bardonecchia and Sauze d’Oulx, in the Susa valley near the French border, restrict their centres — relevant if you are coming through the Fréjus tunnel or over the Montgenèvre, because these are the first Italian towns you meet and the natural place to stop. Alagna Valsesia, under Monte Rosa, does the same at the head of its valley.
On the water, Arona sits on Lake Maggiore and Orta San Giulio on Lake Orta, and the second of these is the one to be careful with: the village is a single street along a promontory facing its island, almost entirely restricted, with parking on the hill above and a walk down. Driving in is neither possible nor desirable, and the walk is the good part.
Other ZTL towns in Piedmont 25
These towns have a Limited Traffic Zone shown on the map, with the hours we hold for them. They have not been checked against the Comune the way the city pages above have, so treat the hours as a starting point and follow the signs at the gate.
- Asti — Daily, 24 h · Piazza Statuto Mon–Sat 20:30–07:30, Sun & holidays 24 h source Show on map
- Cuneo — Daily 20:30–07:00 · Via Roma 24 h source Show on map
- Novara — Daily, 24 h · environmental zone weekdays 08:00–18:00 source Show on map
- Stresa — Mon–Fri 18:30–24:00, Sat 13:00–24:00, Sun and holidays 11:00–24:00 (Giunta 89/2023) — check the LED panel at the gate official details Show on map
- Turin (Torino) — ZTL Torino — Mon–Fri (excl. Sat) 07:30–10:30 · Aree pedonali di Torino (pedestrian area) — closed to traffic source Show on map
- Vercelli — Daily, 24 h source Show on map
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Each of these towns has a camera-enforced zone shown on the map, but we do not yet hold a timetable we can stand behind. Treat the centre as closed until the sign at the gate says otherwise, and park outside it.
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