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Road signs in Italy conform to the general pattern of those used in most other European countries, with the notable exception that the background of motorway ( autostrada) signs is green and those for 'normal' roads is blue. They are regulated by the Codice della Strada (Road Code) and by the Regolamento di Attuazione del Codice della Strada ...
A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution became ubiquitous in developed countries in the 20th century, lights for urban streets followed, or ...
A short section (800 metres or 0.5 miles) of the electric railway that linked Rimini (Italy) and San Marino City until 1944 has been restored. 674 32 São Tomé and Príncipe: 678 33 Solomon Islands: Small railways used to transport bananas and copra, all closed by 1970. 090 34 Somalia: Mogadishu–Villabruzzi Railway existed from 1914 to 1941 ...
Traffic lights in Greece, Italy and Sweden used to show a green and yellow light together, to indicate that the light was about to change to red. All countries now officially use a single yellow light instead, as displaying both the yellow and the green lights is in the violation of the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals .
Italy has a well developed transport infrastructure. The Italian rail network is extensive (16,723 km (10,391 mi)), especially in the north, and it includes a high-speed rail network that joins the major cities of Italy from Naples through northern cities such as Milan and Turin. The Florence–Rome high-speed railway was the first high-speed ...
A mileage sign, sometimes also called a route confirmation sign or simply a distance sign in certain contexts, is a type of road sign along highways that displays the distance from the current point on a highway to a certain city, destination, or a junction to another highway. Their purpose is to inform drivers of the distance to a destination ...
Strait of Messina Bridge. An artist's impression of the planned bridge from the Calabrian coast. / 38.24750°N 15.63917°E / 38.24750; 15.63917. Six lanes and two emergency lanes. Two rails and two railway sidewalks. The Strait of Messina Bridge ( Italian: Ponte sullo stretto di Messina) is a planned 3.6-kilometre suspension bridge ...
Map of Italy and its major cities The following is a list of Italian municipalities ( comuni ) with a population over 50,000. The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics , [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census . [3]