Florence’s Limited Traffic Zone was established in 1990 and to date covers an area of approximately 4 km2 out of 48 km2 of built-up area, for a total of 10.11 m2/inhabitant and is currently controlled by 20 telematic gates. The gates are fitted with Autostrade per l’Italia S.p.A telepass technology equipment that interacts with an on-board device (Telepass ZTL – only for the Florence ZTL – or Telepass Autostradale enabled also for the Florence ZTL at SAS Offices) in the possession of those entitled to transit in accordance with the current Mobility Acts.
Information on the ZTL
ZTL in Florence
Limited Traffic Zone in Florence
Within the Florence ZTL area, pedestrian areas are identified where access is always forbidden to motor vehicles except as identified in the specific Mobility Acts. The Pedestrian Areas have daily opening hours for loading and unloading operations by residents and entitled persons. The Pedestrian Areas may be protected by chains or retractable mobile bollards (Pilomat).
Where are the cameras
The monitoring of vehicles entering the Florence ZTL is carried out through twenty cameras located respectively in:
Piazza V, Veneto/Lungarno Vespucci – Via della Scala – Piazza dell’Untà – Via Valfonda (Bus Lane) – Via XXVII Aprile (Bus Lane) – Via Guelfa – Via delle ruote – Via Cavour – Via Alfonso Lamarmora (Bus Lane) – Via Vittorio Alfieri – Via della Mattonaia (Bus Lane) – Via Nicolini – Via dell’Agnolo – Corso dei Tintori – Via de’ Benci (Bus Lane) – Lungarno Torrigiani – Via Romana – Piazza Torquato Tasso – Via Borgo San Frediano – Lungarno Federico Vespucci.
As of 19 July 2013, the following 24-hour cameras were activated in the pre-operational phase to protect the subsectors within the ZTL located respectively in
Via Bardi – Piazza Pitti – Lungarno Diaz.
Sectors
Florence’s Limited Traffic Zone (ZTL) consists of the two sectors A and B.
Sector A
Sector ‘A’ concerns all the streets within the following perimeter: lungarno Corsini, lungarno Acciaiuoli, lungarno Archibusieri, lungarno M.L. Medici, lungarno Diaz, via dei Benci (excluded), piazza S. Croce (excluded), via Verdi (excluded), piazza Salvemini (excluded the connecting street between via Verdi and via Sant’Egidio), via S. Egidio (excluding), via Bufalini (excluding), via dei Pucci (excluding), via dei Gori (excluding), piazza S. Lorenzo, via Borgo La Noce, p.za del Mercato Centrale (excluding the pedestrian area), via Chiara (excluding), via Nazionale (excluding), L. go F.lli Alinari (excluded), piazza Stazione (limited to the area between piazza dell’Unità Italiana and the ideal line joining the extreme part towards the Station of the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella with the edge of the building in piazza Stazione between the two house numbers 50R and 51R), via degli Avelli, piazza S. M. Novella (excluding the connection between Via della Scala and Via dei Fossi), Via dei Fossi (excluding), Piazza Ottaviani (excluding), Via dei Fossi (excluding), Piazza Goldoni (section from Via dei Fossi to the Lungarno Corsini).
Sector B
Sector ‘B’ covers all the streets within the following perimeter, excluding the streets and squares already included in Sector ‘A’: lungarno alle Grazie (excluded), piazza Cavalleggeri (excluded), lungarno Zecca Vecchia (excluded), piazza Piave (excluded), viale Giovine Italia (excluded), via Paolieri (excluded), piazza Beccaria (excluded), viale Gramsci (excluded), piazzale Donatello (excluded), viale Matteotti (excluded) piazza Del Lungo (excluded), piazza Libertà (excluded), viale Lavagnini (excluded), viale Strozzi (excluded, except for the semi-carriageway on the building side of the boulevard between via della Fortezza and via Ridolfi), via Valfonda (excluded), largo Pratello Orsini (excluded), viale F. lli Rosselli (excluded), piazzale di Porta al Prato (excluded), piazza V.Veneto (excluded), Lungarno Vespucci from piazza V.Veneto to Ponte Vespucci (excluding the stretch between the car park between via Curtatone and via Palestro and Ponte Vespucci), Ponte Vespucci (excluded), via S. Onofrio (excluded), Piazza dei Nerli, Borgo S. Frediano in the section between Piazza dei Nerli and Viale Ariosto (excluding), Viale Ariosto (excluding), Viale Pratolini (excluding), Piazza Tasso (excluding the area bounded by: Viale Pratolini, house number 1 of the square, the garden in the centre of the square, Via del Campuccio, Viale Petrarca), Viale Petrarca (excluding), Piazza della Calza, Via Romana, Via del Ronco, Piazza S. Felice, Piazza Pitti, Via Guicciardini, Piazza S. Felicita, Piazza dei Rossi, Costa S. Giorgio, Via Forte S. Giorgio, Vicolo della Cava, Costa Scarpuccia, Via dei Bitti, Via dei Bitti, Via S. Giorgio, Vicolo della Cava, Costa Scarpuccia, Via dei Bitti. Felice, piazza Pitti, via Guicciardini, piazza S. Felicita, piazza dei Rossi, Costa S. Giorgio, via Forte di S. Giorgio, vicolo della Cava, Costa Scarpuccia, via dei Bardi in the section between Costa Scarpuccia and via S.Niccolò, piazza dei Mozzi.
ZTL Timetables
In sectors A, B and O, the ZTL will be in force on Thursdays and Fridays from 7.30 a.m. to 3 a.m., and on Saturdays from 7.30 a.m. to 4 p.m., before resuming with the night-time ZTL from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Sundays.
In sectors F and G, those not included in the daytime ZTL but only in the summer night-time measure, the usual times remain in force: from 11 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to 3 a.m. the following day.
THURSDAY
regular ztl
Sectors: A, B and O
7:30 - 03:00
THURSDAY
summer ztl
Sectors: F and G
23:00 - 03:00
FRIDAY
regular ztl
Sectors: A, B and O
7:30 - 03:00
FRIDAY
summer ztl
Sectors: F and G
23:00 - 03:00
SATURDAY
regular ztl
Sectors: A, B and O
7:30 - 03:00
SATURDAY
regular ztl
Sectors: A, B and O
23:00 - 03:00
SATURDAY
summer ztl
Sectors: F and G
23:00 - 03:00
In sectors A, B and O, the ZTL will be in force on Thursdays and Fridays from 7.30 a.m. to 3 a.m., and on Saturdays from 7.30 a.m. to 4 p.m., before resuming with the night-time ZTL from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Sundays.
In sectors F and G, those not included in the daytime ZTL but only in the summer night-time measure, the usual times remain in force: from 11 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to 3 a.m. the following day.