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The most expensive license in Europe
Getting an Italian driving license is a serious undertaking. You cannot simply book a test: the theory exam covers several thousand possible true-or-false questions, lessons at a registered autoscuola are effectively compulsory, and the whole process commonly runs to eight hundred euros or more and several months. The minimum age is eighteen, there is a points system that strips your license over repeated offenses, and new drivers face lower speed limits and a zero alcohol limit for the first three years. Roman traffic then supplies the real education. Lane markings are treated as advisory, scooters filter through gaps that do not appear to exist, and the horn is used as a form of communication rather than aggression — a short beep means I am here, not you idiot. Pedestrian crossings work, but by negotiation: step out with intent and traffic stops, hesitate and it will not. The ZTL cameras from Lesson 20 remain the expensive trap for visitors. And the roundabout at Piazza Venezia, directed for decades by a policeman on a podium, is worth watching even if you never drive it.