ZTL zones in Tuscany
Tuscany (Toscana) has 57 towns and cities with a Limited Traffic Zone on this map, covering 57 zones in total. Pick a destination to see its restricted area and plan where to park.
Driving in Tuscany
Tuscany has more restricted towns than any other region on this map — fifty-five of them — and almost all the ones visitors come for are hill towns or walled cities whose centres were built long before cars. The pattern is consistent enough to plan around: the historic core is closed, the car park is outside the walls, and the walk in is part of the visit.
Ten have their own page, each checked against the Comune’s own rules: Florence, Siena, Lucca, Pisa, Arezzo, Cortona, Montepulciano, Volterra, Pistoia and Livorno. The Tuscany road-trip guide takes the same ten as a single route.
Around the clock is the norm, not the exception
The most useful thing to know about Tuscany is how many of its centres never open. Siena, Lucca and Pistoia are restricted twenty-four hours a day, every day, and so is Pisa, which adds a night zone along the river from Friday to Sunday. Montepulciano closes around the clock from May to September — exactly the months most people visit — and opens during the day only in spring, autumn and winter.
Where there is a timetable, it is rarely the simple office-hours one people expect. Florence restricts until eight in the evening on weekdays and until four on Saturdays, and from early April to early October adds a night zone from Thursday to Saturday. Cortona’s main zone runs from ten in the morning until four the next morning in summer. Arezzo splits its centre into two zones on different clocks, and Volterra changes with the season. The city pages give the detail; the habit that works everywhere is to assume the gate is live.
Florence, and the day trips from it
Florence is where the stakes are highest. The zone covers the whole historic centre inside the ring of avenues, and every gate is watched by a camera. If your hotel is inside it, the hotel can register your plate — staying at a hotel inside a ZTL explains how — but for a day visit the answer is to park outside the centre or not to drive in at all. The train from Pisa, Lucca or Arezzo arrives in the middle of the city.
The towns people drive to from Florence are the same story on a smaller scale. Siena, Montepulciano, Cortona and Volterra all sit on hilltops with the car parks below the walls, and in each the restricted area begins at the gate you would otherwise drive through. The Tuscany guide also covers the winter emissions rules that apply to older cars, foreign plates included.
The coast, Elba and the smaller towns
Beyond the ten, the map shows restricted centres along the coast at Forte dei Marmi, Pietrasanta, Castiglione della Pescaia, Orbetello and Porto Ercole; on Elba at Portoferraio, Capoliveri and Marciana Marina; and in hill towns such as Certaldo, Colle di Val d’Elsa, Castellina in Chianti and Lucignano. We have not yet checked their hours against the Comuni, so they are listed below without a timetable. Treat each as closed until the sign at the gate says otherwise.
A few well-known towns are not on the map at all. San Gimignano is the obvious one: it restricts its centre, but its boundary is not published as data we can use, and we would rather leave a town off than draw its outline by guesswork.
ZTL guides for Tuscany 10
Other ZTL towns in Tuscany 47
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.
- Pienza — Electronic gates reported as always on — permit holders and hotel-registered guests only; fixed suppliers 07:00–11:00 — timetable not confirmed, check the signs official details Show on map
- San Gimignano — Normally daily, 24 h — permit holders and registered guests only; hotel guests may enter 07:00–09:30 without prior registration (video gates, fines from 1 May 2026) official details Show on map
Also restricted — hours not yet checked 45
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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