Updated 7 September 2026 · 13 cities

Italy

Most of what catches tourists in Italy is a municipal ordinance, and those are capped at €500 by national law. The figures above that cap come from somewhere else — and two of them carry prison.

cities covered

€500

highest fine (Amalfi Coast & Cinque Terre)

Everywhere in Italy

National law, the same amount in every city. Written once here and shown on every Italy city page.

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Municipal rules on top of the 2 national ones.

CityWhat catches tourists thereLocal rulesMax fine

Amalfi Coast & Cinque TerreThe Amalfi Coast fines what damages it — sand taken off the beach, cars on the SS163, noise at night — and Italian law caps a town ordinance at €500.+15€500 BolognaBologna has Italy’s largest ZTL and a food culture with firmer rules than its ordinances — the fineable things here are mostly about driving and tickets.+13€500 Lake ComoLake Como is a string of small towns with one road and no parking, so the rules that catch visitors are about where the car goes and what you wear off the water.+13€500 NaplesMost of what is fineable here is not in Naples at all — it is at Pompeii and Vesuvius, where the rules are national heritage law rather than a city ordinance.+15€500 PalermoPalermo asks for judgement more than compliance: the memorials are political, the markets are crowded, and the ZTL is the thing that actually fines you.+13€500 PisaPisa is a day trip with one rule that matters — the tower is timed and capped — and a driving rule Spain gets blamed for that is actually Italian too.+13€500 RomeRome prices behaviour rather than offences — where you sit, what you eat and what you drag over the steps — and national law caps a city ordinance at €500.+15€500 SardiniaSardinia protects its sand harder than anywhere in Europe, with airport checks on departure — and several of its beaches now cap how many people may stand on them.+15€500 VeniceVenice regulates the crowd rather than the crime: where you sit, what you carry, what you ride and whether you paid to come in for the day.+14€500 MilanMilan fines the things a city runs on — the traffic zone, the ticket you did not stamp, the noise at night — and Italian law caps a municipal ordinance at €500.+13€400 CataniaEtna is the rule that matters in Catania: above 2,500 metres you need a licensed guide, and the exclusion zones move with the volcano.+13€335 VeronaVerona is small, walled and camera-enforced, and its most-photographed wall is the one you are no longer allowed to write on.+13€300 FlorenceFlorence polices the historic centre street by street — where you eat, where you sit, what you drive in — and two of its figures are the national ceiling rather than its own tariff.+15€100

Italy

Everywhere in Italy

Buying counterfeit goodsD.L. 35/2005 art. 1 c. 7€100–€7,000

Carving or spraying a monumentCodice penale art. 518-duodecies€1,500–€10,000

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