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Malta's road signage system is a mixture of that of Italy's as well as the United Kingdom's (with certain Italian signs being mirrored due to Malta driving on the left). San Marino and the Vatican City —both microstates located within Italy—almost wholly share the same road signage system used in Italy.
French sign showing the difference between French and Swiss motorway sign colours, on the A411 near Geneva. The main differences relate to Graphic design details; Local regulatory significance; The colour-coding of directional signs; Local language texts (sometimes bilingual) The meaning and colour-coding of horizontal road surface markings
Roads can be motorways, expressways or other routes. In many countries, expressways share the same colour as primary routes, but there are some exceptions where they share the colour of motorways (Austria, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden) or have their own colour (the countries comprising former Yugoslavia employ white text on blue specifically for expressways).
Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones . Later, signs with directional arms were introduced, for example the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden counterparts in Saxony .
The King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy inaugurated the Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway"; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and Autostrada A9), the first motorway built in the world, [5] [6] on 21 September 1924, aboard the royal Lancia Trikappa Toll gate of the Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway") in Milan in 1924 Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway") in 1925 Foundation stone laying ...
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25. Aldo. While this means “old and wise,” it makes a great name for any boy. 26. Carlo. Keep your Italian heritage alive with this name that translates to “free man.”