FAQ's - Car Parking
If you are going to drive into one of Italy's cities and wish to park your car during your stay, you should seriously consider the expense and trouble before going ahead with this.
Firstly, the historic centre of most major cities are heavily restricted with cameras at most points of entry and in some parts traffic police preventing those who are want to enter regardless of the fine. For non-residents without a pass on their car windscreen there is a fine of around 60 Euro if you drive into the centre, then once you get into the centre there is no parking available and if you do park without a permit you will likely be fined, wheel blocked or towed away... not a pretty picture!
"As a resident of the Spanish Steps area in Rome, I didn't even bother to own a car for three years until I secured one of the rarely available extortionately expensive private car spaces available as my rental car had been towed, blocked and fined a multitude of times."
If you still want to go ahead and keep that rental car, there are several solutions. One is parking in one of the covered public car parks and leaving your car there for the duration of your stay. Another is to choose one of our apartments that are just outside of the restricted zone, (see each individual website for this information) which means you can legally park... but finding a car park is never easy and you will still need to purchase hourly parking tickets from a machine or at the Tabaccheria which will cost you up to Euro 20 per day... so there you have the realities of keeping your car during your stay so you can make an informed decision in regards to whether it's worth keeping your car or not. You can also check out www.parcheggi.it, this site lists all the parking garages in Italy.
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