Italy removals from the UK, with guides to 26 cities, towns and islands and the rules each council publishes.
International Movers to Italy
Tell us where you live now and where you are going, and a removal company in our partner network gets your enquiry. It checks whether it covers the move and quotes after assessing your belongings. Italian comuni each set their own street rules, so this page points you to the right guide for your route and your city.
Which Italy guide to open first depends on the direction of your move
Begin with the guide for the way you are travelling. Each of the three starts with a different office: the Italian consulate or Questura for a move in, the town hall or the consulate for a move out, and the Alpine crossing for a move to Germany.
UK to Italy
From the UK to Italy
Since 1 January 2021 a British citizen who wants to live in Italy is treated as a non-EU national. Our guide to moving to Italy from the UK follows that order: a visa, then the Questura within eight working days, then the town hall register and the codice fiscale, with customs and the lorry’s route alongside.
Italy to UK
From Italy back to the UK
Your passport decides the first step. The guide to moving from Italy to the UK explains that a non-Italian resident tells the comune, an Italian citizen registers with the AIRE through the consulate, and an HMRC application for relief on your belongings goes in before they ship.
Italy to Germany
From Italy to Germany
The way over the Alps decides whether the lorry leaves the EU. Our guide to moving between Italy and Germany says when a route through Switzerland needs a transit declaration, and it also covers the move from Germany into Italy.
Customs, car, lorries
Four subjects with a guide of their own: customs, a car, lorry bans and ZTL zones
Customs relief, a UK car, the national lorry-ban days and the city traffic zones each change the order of a move, and each guide lists the official pages behind its figures.
Customs relief for household goods
The customs guide for moving to Italy sets out the two forms of Italy’s customs agency and four periods: twelve months outside the EU, six months of possession, twelve months to import, and twelve months after import without lending or transferring the goods.
Taking a UK car
The guide to taking a UK car to Italy starts with the Highway Code’s three months from registered residence, which GOV.UK puts as 90 days. It then covers the sixty days the automobile club gives for filing at the Motorizzazione and the registry.
Lorry-ban days and the Alps
The guide to Italian lorry bans and Alpine passes covers the 2026 decree barring goods vehicles above 7.5 tonnes outside built-up areas on set days. The decree names no household-removal exemption, and the 2027 calendar was not out on 31 October 2026.
ZTL zones and street permits
The guide to Italian ZTL rules for movers explains the permit that must be held before a vehicle enters, the camera fines and why a street-space request is a separate application from a zone pass.
Italian cities set their own rules, and the notice they want runs from three working days to thirty days
Street rules come from the comune, and each ZTL has its own hours. These figures are restated from our city guides, read between 31 October and 3 November 2026.
Notice for street space, shortest first
Sassari: a form for an occupation of under six hours must be sent no later than three working days before, and it fits only if no road or lane is closed (Sardinia guide).
Verona: the online form goes in at least ten days before the move (Verona guide).
Turin: the city asks for at least twenty days, and says it emails the concession at least two days before the occupation starts (Turin guide).
Florence: the concession comes no earlier than 21 days after a complete application, and a separate traffic order needs 21 days, or 30 in peak weeks (Florence guide).
Rome: the Municipio issues a temporary concession within thirty days of the application (Rome guide).
Cagliari: the request goes in at least thirty days before, and only firms with a VAT number can apply (Sardinia guide).
Olbia: the online desk lists moves among the reasons to occupy public land and gives no notice period.
Milan: the council’s form for a lorry over 7.50 m wants its documents by midnight two days before entering Area C (Milan guide).
Zone and vehicle limits
Rome: ordinance 105 bars goods vehicles from ZTL A1 and nearby areas between 7 September and 7 December 2026, and the mobility agency says a court has suspended its effects. A temporary ZTL permit for bulky goods allows three hours at most.
Florence: a day pass for a vehicle under 3,500 kg is limited to ten days a month. A heavier vehicle asks the municipal police by email and may be authorised only between 6:00 and 8:30.
Turin: the ZTL Centrale bars circulation and stopping from 7:30 to 10:30 on every working day except Saturday.
Verona: as a rule, vehicles above 5.5 tonnes laden weight may not enter the historic-centre zone. An antismog ban covering goods vehicles runs from 8:30 to 19:30 on weekdays until 30 April 2027.
Milan: the same form lists a vehicle heading for a public-road area and asks for a copy of the street-occupation permit, and the authorisation does not waive the Area C ticket.
Bologna: the historic-centre zone restricts motor vehicles from 7:00 to 20:00 every day, with some streets closed round the clock (Bologna guide).
Naples: a 2026 guide says the council grants temporary zone permits for house moves by email, and zone hours differ gate by gate (Naples guide).
Sardinia: a lorry on a ferry journey to or from the island gets a four-hour allowance in the national lorry-ban calendar, with papers.
Twelve more town guides
Each town guide reads that council’s own page on a move or a zone pass, quotes it in Italian, and says what the page leaves unsaid. Read on 3 November 2026.
Prato: a police traffic service for a removal, asked 15 days ahead and priced from a 2026 hourly tariff.
Livorno: a temporary traffic order for a one-day move, asked 15 days ahead, with no-parking signs up 48 hours before.
Rimini: removals written out of the bar on five old-centre squares, and day passes at €5 or €15.
Salerno: two €10 charges, one for a no-parking order and one for a ZTL pass for each vehicle.
Lecce: a ZTL pass for removal firms that allows 90 minutes between 6.00 and 19.00.
Como: a street-use request five days ahead, ten if a road closes, and a walled-city ZTL.
Brindisi: a permit asked 20 clear days ahead, with secretarial fees from €5.16 to €129.11.
Cosenza: a street-use permit asked 15 days ahead, with a council site visit.
Viareggio: forms split by days, 15 days and €70 from the fourth day, and an extra call for the seafront.
Cuneo: a permit written for a move or clearance, asked five working days ahead.
Benevento: a street-use form that lists a move as a reason, and a 45-day decision term.
Tivoli:ZTL passes for moves at €15 a day, or €20 a vehicle per 15 days for a firm.
Venice, Genoa and Sicily have guides too, but they rest on port or zone material and no street-permit rule: see the Venice, Genoa and Sicily guides. Bari publishes a 48-hour receipt rule and a 15-day request.
Rome’s rules change on dated orders, so check the Rome guide before you fix a date.
Other regions
What if your region has no guide of its own?
Every Italian region is named below with its nearest guides. Of the 138 comuni with 50,000 residents or more, 26 guides cover 25 places, and every other large comune is named, with its population, on the guide shown or in the list further down.
Lombardy: the Milan and Como guides; fourteen other Lombard towns are named on the Milan guide.
Piedmont and the Aosta Valley: the Turin and Cuneo guides. The Aosta Valley is not covered by a council page we read.
Liguria: the Genoa guide, which names La Spezia, Savona and Sanremo.
Veneto, Trentino-South Tyrol and Friuli-Venezia Giulia: guides for Venice (naming Trieste, Udine, Treviso and Pordenone), Padua (naming Vicenza) and Verona (naming Trento and Bolzano). The national lorry-ban guide covers the Brenner road.
Emilia-Romagna: the Bologna and Rimini guides.
Tuscany and Umbria: the Florence, Prato, Livorno and Viareggio guides; Perugia and Terni are named on the Florence guide.
Marche and Abruzzo: no guide of its own; Ancona, Pesaro, Fano, Pescara, L’Aquila, Montesilvano and Teramo are named below.
Lazio: the Rome and Tivoli guides.
Campania, Basilicata, Molise and Calabria: the Naples, Salerno, Benevento and Cosenza guides. Potenza, Matera, Reggio di Calabria, Catanzaro, Crotone, Lamezia Terme and Corigliano-Rossano are named below.
Apulia: the Bari, Lecce and Brindisi guides.
Sicily and Sardinia: the Sicily guide and the Sardinia guide.
Livigno and Campione d’Italia: the European Commission’s territorial table, as our customs guide reads it, shows EU customs, VAT and excise rules as not applying to Livigno. For Campione d’Italia it shows customs and excise rules applying and VAT rules not applying.
Pets: the Italian health ministry’s page sits behind a security check, so we state no Italian pet rule.
If your town is not named here, send it with the nearest city and let the removal company work out what applies.
Provinces
Which guide is nearest to a province with no guide?
The comune of your address sets moving rules, not the province. Each line names the nearest guide for the provinces around it; the larger towns of each province are named on that guide.
Piedmont: Turin guide, nearest to the provinces of Vercelli, Biella and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola; Cuneo has its own.
Lombardy: Milan guide, nearest to the provinces of Sondrio, Pavia, Cremona, Lecco and Lodi. The Verona guide is nearest to Mantua.
Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia: Venice guide, nearest to the provinces of Belluno, Rovigo, Gorizia and Pordenone.
Liguria: Genoa guide, nearest to the province of Imperia.
Tuscany: Florence guide, nearest to the provinces of Massa-Carrara, Pistoia and Grosseto.
Marche: no guide of its own; the Bologna guide is nearest to the provinces of Macerata, Ascoli Piceno and Fermo.
Lazio and Abruzzo: Rome guide, nearest to the provinces of Viterbo, Rieti and Frosinone and the Abruzzo provinces of L’Aquila, Teramo and Chieti.
Campania and Molise: Naples guide, nearest to the province of Avellino and the Molise province of Isernia.
Calabria: Cosenza guide, nearest to the provinces of Catanzaro, Crotone and Vibo Valentia; the Sicily guide covers the Strait of Messina crossing.
Sicily: Sicily guide, nearest to the provinces of Trapani, Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Enna and Ragusa.
Sardinia: Sardinia guide, nearest to the provinces of Nuoro, Oristano and Sud Sardegna.
Islands: the Ischia, Procida and Capri guide sets out the vehicle bans we read. We read nothing on Elba, the Aeolian islands or the islands of the Venice lagoon, so no rule is stated for them.
Facts checked: 3 November 2026. Counts on the town lists come from the national statistics office (ISTAT), Bilancio demografico, provisional, read 3 November 2026.
Towns without a guide
Which larger towns with no guide are named here?
Fourteen comuni of 50,000 residents or more sit in regions that have no town guide of their own. Each is named with its ISTAT population (provisional count for 31 December 2025) and what the council pages gave on 3 November 2026. Several councils could not be read at all, and we did not work around that.
Reggio di Calabria (167,925): its service pages; no rule for a move reached.
Pescara (118,487): council pages read; no permit for a move was listed.
Ancona (100,151): its service pages; no move rule was set out.
Pesaro (95,270): its pages opened; no word on moves.
Catanzaro (82,708): council site read: nothing on moves showed up.
Corigliano-Rossano (74,403): unreadable; the website turned our request away.
L’Aquila (70,803): unreadable, as the site came back blank.
Lamezia Terme (67,005): its service page lists "scarico merci e traslochi" among the reasons to occupy public land; no fee or notice read.
Potenza (63,403): unreadable, as the site blocked our request.
Fano (59,871): we looked through its pages; no move rule was set out.
Matera (59,368): its occupation page lists "trasloco e scarico merci", with a 16-euro stamp and a maximum wait of 30 days.
Crotone (58,136): its occupation page lists "traslochi, cantieri, ponteggi", asks for the request at least 30 days ahead and a 16-euro stamp.
Montesilvano (53,557): unreadable; the website came back blank.
Teramo (51,400): we looked through its pages; no permit for a move was listed.
Cosenza has its own Cosenza guide. If your town is not named here, send it with the nearest city. See also the guide to zones and street permits.
Facts checked: 3 November 2026. Each council line comes from a page read, or tried, on that day.
All guides
Every Italy guide, by route, subject and city
Every city guide rests on that comune’s own published pages. A town that is missing can be sent in with the nearest city on your enquiry.
Do I need a permit for a removal lorry in an Italian city?
The cities we read each have a request for street space, and the notice runs from three working days in Sassari to thirty days in Cagliari, with 45 days for a decision in Benevento.
A ZTL pass can be a second permission. Verona treats the two as separate applications, and Florence’s pass must be held before the vehicle passes a gate.
Is a removal lorry exempt from Italy’s lorry-ban days?
Not on the text we read. The 2026 decree bars goods vehicles above 7.5 tonnes outside built-up areas on set days and names no household-removal exemption.
A prefecture can authorise a drive for absolute and proven necessity, asked ten days ahead, but a household move is not among its nine listed cases.
Can a removal lorry enter a ZTL in Italy?
Only with the town’s authorisation, obtained first. Cameras photograph the plate and the fine arrives later by post.
We found no national exemption for removal vehicles, so each comune decides. Ask your removal company how it expects to be authorised at your address.
How long can a UK car keep British plates in Italy?
The Highway Code gives three months from registered residence, and GOV.UK puts it as 90 days. Plan to the shorter period.
Our car guide sets out the customs relief and the two registration offices.
Do household goods pay duty and VAT entering Italy from the UK?
Not if you qualify for transfer of residence relief. Italy’s customs agency says it applies when your normal home moves there from outside the EU.
Customs, not the removal company, decides whether it applies. Our customs guide sets out the two forms and the four periods.
Is there a guide for my Italian town or city?
Yes for 26 cities, towns and islands, from Milan, Naples, Venice and Bologna to Prato, Lecce, Cuneo and Tivoli. Each says plainly which council pages we could not read.
Other large comuni are named on the nearest guide with their populations. Where a rule could not be read, the guide states none. Send your address with your enquiry and the removal company checks the position.
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