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The Autostrada A1 or Autostrada del Sole ("Sun motorway") is the longest (760 kilometres (470 mi)) [1] autostrada (Italian for "motorway") in Italy, [2] [3] linking some of the largest cities of the country: Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples. The Autostrada A1 is located in the regions of Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio ...
Autostrada A14 Autostrada A11 Autostrada A12. In order for a road to be classified as a motorway, various geometric and construction conditions must be satisfied and these, although very similar in basis (for example the width of the travel lanes must be 3.75 metres (12.3 ft)) are not constant: there are different technical-legal regulations for motorways built in urban or extra-urban areas.
The Autostrada A91, also called Autostrada Roma-Fiumicino ("Roma-Fiumicino motorway"), is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") 18.5 kilometres (11.5 mi) long in Italy located in the region of Lazio which connects Rome to the Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Fiumicino. It is a part of the E80 European route.
On the left side the progressive distance from the location of origin of the motorway is indicated (i.e. that we are at kilometer 24 from the starting point of the motorway), on the right side it indicates the distance of the exit for the indicated location (i.e. that there are 4 km or 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles to get to the exit for Piacenza).
On main roads and within cities, the colour of a directional sign with a single destination depends on the type of destination: if the destination is a city that is reached by means of a motorway, the sign is green and carries the motorway name as well as the destination; in the other cases when the destination is a city, the sign is blue
Grande Raccordo Anulare in the 1950s. Plans for an orbital road around Rome were proposed by the end of World War II.One of the designers' main purposes was to build the road as most equally distant as possible from the geographic centre of town, the Campidoglio, 11.4 kilometres (7.1 mi) away from the motorway.
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 ...
Strada statale 48 delle Dolomiti Strada statale 131 Carlo Felice Strada statale 7 Via Appia. Since the reforms following the birth of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, the State took charge of the construction and maintenance of a primary network of roads for connections between the main cities; in 1865 the Lanza law introduced the classification of roads as national, provincial or municipal (see ...