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Parking is a negotiation
Roman parking is the subject Alex raises for a reason. Space is finite, enforcement is patchy, and the result is a widely tolerated practice of creative parking: cars at angles, on corners, wedged into gaps by inches, and the maneuver of nudging the vehicles in front and behind to make room — which is partly why so many Roman cars carry dents nobody intends to fix. Lines have meanings worth knowing: white means free, blue means paid, yellow means reserved and will be towed. The Roman streets themselves are the constraint. The historic center is largely a ZTL, a zona a traffico limitato, monitored by cameras, and driving into one without a permit produces an automatic fine that may reach you months later at home — rental companies pass them on with an administration charge. Which is a long way of saying that the metro of Lesson 18 is not merely cheaper. The scooter exists for the same reason, and the Italian driving license is genuinely hard: a compulsory theory exam, mandatory lessons at a driving school and a practical test, with a cost that runs to several hundred euros.