How to Distinguish
- Right-hand traffic
- The country-code domain is .it
- License plates carry blue strips on both sides
- Chevron signs often have black backgrounds with white arrows, similar to Albania
- The back of road signs is usually black or gray
- Tobacco shops display a “T” Taloncino/Tabacchi sign (参考文献 イタリア版個人商店？イタリアで良く見かけるTabacchiとは？)
- Extensive vineyards; Italy is the world’s #2 wine producer after China
- Street plates that start with “Via” or “Vico” point to Italian-speaking towns
Signs you can find
San Marino and Albania use similar bollards.
License plates typically have blue strips on both sides —but Albania and France can show the same format.
Willtron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Signs often use a beveled rectangle with rounded inner borders . Street-name plates, route markers, and supplementary plaques share the same style, so signage alone often reveals Italy.
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Italian Tabacchi shops sport a black “T” logo letting you know cigarettes and stamps are sold there (参考文献 イタリア版個人商店？イタリアで良く見かけるTabacchiとは？).
Forests & terrain
- Italian cypress rows flank many rural lanes
- There are numerous tree species: Aleppo pine, stone pine, umbrella pine, olive, cedar, cypress, oak, etc.
- While you may see vines on both sides of the road, olive groves sometimes dominate entire horizons
Industry & energy
- Solar farms and geothermal fields dot southern Tuscany
- Volcanic soils around Mount Etna create dark roadside gravel
Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, leaves dark lava soil along the roadside (参考文献 Mount Etna).
Narrow down city/town
- Venice has zones accessible only by boat
- Campione d’Italia is an Italian enclave inside Switzerland with low camera height
- Outlying islands—Giglio, Pantelleria, Egadi, Lampedusa, San Domino—each have unique vegetation and building styles
Roughly 90% of Giglio Island is Mediterranean woodland (参考文献 Isola del Giglio) with extensive pine groves .
Lampedusa lies far from the mainland; buggies are common , similar to islands like Pitcairn or Cocos.
San Domino (Tremiti Islands) has rough cobblestone paths and low-resolution imagery . The ferry in the photo often anchors there .
By Giorgio Galeotti - Own work, CC BY 4.0, Link
Venice includes waterways you must travel by boat —don’t confuse it with France’s Port Grimaud.
This Italian enclave inside Switzerland has lower camera height imagery.
Representative companies
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