This page was last updated on 16 December, 2021.
At a Glance
Travel Restrictions
Entry For Vaccinated Travelers: Partially Allowed
Vaccination Requirements: A vaccination certificate has proven to be the most common and convenient form since it remains valid for up to one year. However, not all countries recognise the same vaccines as valid proof of immunity.
According to a press release issued by the Italian Ministry of Health, it has been announced that the country accepts proof of vaccination only if the administered jab has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
“The certification of successful completion of the vaccination cycle must relate to one of the four vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency,” the Ministry stated.
Based on the Ministry’s statement, it means that only the following vaccines listed below are recognised as valid proof of vaccination in Italy:
Comirnaty Pfizer-BioNTech by BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH
Spikevax, formerly Moderna by Moderna Biotech Spain, SL
Vaxzvria, formerly AstraZeneca by AstraZeneca Ab
Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) by Janssen – Cilag International N.
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Tourist Entry: Partially Allowed
Testing: Required to present a negative PCR test.
Quarantine Required: Depends
Quarantine Details: Quarantine is required for some countries.
Local Restrictions
Lockdown in Effect: Partial
Events: Partially Allowed
Transport: Operational with restrictions
Shopping: Open
Restaurants and Bars: Open with restrictions
Detailed Travel Advisory
Published 15.12.2021
1. Until 31 January 2022, flights from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe are suspended.
2. Until 31 January 2022, passengers are not allowed to enter.
– This does not apply to:
– nationals of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (Rep.), Italy, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Vatican City (Holy See);
– passengers with a long-term residence permit or a long term “D” visa issued by Switzerland or an EEA Member State;
– family members of nationals and residents of Switzerland or an EEA Member State;
– passengers with proof of being unmarried partners of residents of Italy;
– passengers who in the past 14 days have only been in or transited through Andorra, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Hong Kong (SAR China), Finland, France, French Guiana, French West Indies (only Guadeloupe and Martinique), Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (Rep.), Israel, Japan, Jordan, Korea Rep., Kosovo (Rep.), Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao (SAR China), Malta, Mayotte, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay or USA;
– passengers traveling on business;
– passengers returning via Italy to their country of residence;
– students;
– military personnel.
3. Until 31 January 2022, passengers arriving from, or who in the past 14 days have been in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa or Zimbabwe, are not allowed to enter and transit.
– This does not apply to nationals of Italy residing in Italy since before 26 November 2021.
4. Passengers must complete a Digital Passenger Locator Form at https://app.euplf.eu/
5. Passengers arriving from, or who in the past 14 days have been in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa or Zimbabwe, must have a negative COVID-19 antigen or molecular test taken at most 72 hours before arrival. The test result must be in English, French, Italian or Spanish; and
– are subject to a negative COVID-19 antigen or molecular test upon arrival and self-isolation for 10 days.
6. Until 15 December 2021, passengers must have a negative COVID-19 antigen or molecular test taken at most 72 hours before arrival. The test result must be in English, French, Italian or Spanish.
– This does not apply to:
– passengers arriving from Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, French West Indies (only Guadeloupe and Martinique), Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (Rep.), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mayotte, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Reunion, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom or Vatican City (Holy See);
– passengers arriving from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa or Zimbabwe;
– military personnel;
– passengers younger than 6 years;
– more exemptions can be found at https://tinyurl.com/xwwuut4a .
7. Effective 16 December 2021, passengers must have:
– a negative COVID-19 molecular test taken at most 72 hours before arrival; or
– a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken at most 24 hours before arrival.
The test result must be in English, French, Italian or Spanish.
– This does not apply to:
– passengers arriving from Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, French West Indies (only Guadeloupe and Martinique), Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (Rep.), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mayotte, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Reunion, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom or Vatican City (Holy See);
– passengers arriving from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa or Zimbabwe;
– military personnel;
– passengers younger than 6 years;
– more exemptions can be found at https://tinyurl.com/xwwuut4a .
8. Until 15 December 2021, passengers arriving from Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, French West Indies (only Guadeloupe and Martinique), Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (Rep.), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mayotte, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Reunion, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or United Kingdom must have:
– a negative COVID-19 antigen or molecular test taken at most 48 hours before arrival; or
– a COVID-19 recovery certificate; or
– a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days before arrival. Vaccines accepted are: AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria), Janssen, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty).
All documents must be in English, French, Italian or Spanish.
– This does not apply to:
– military personnel;
– passengers younger than 6 years;
– more exemptions can be found at https://tinyurl.com/xwwuut4a .
9. Effective 16 December 2021, passengers arriving from Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, French West Indies (only Guadeloupe and Martinique), Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (Rep.), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mayotte, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Reunion, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or United Kingdom must have:
– a negative COVID-19 molecular test taken at most 48 hours before arrival; or
– a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken at most 24 hours before arrival.
The test result must be in English, French, Italian or Spanish.
– This does not apply to:
– military personnel;
– passengers younger than 6 years;
– more exemptions can be found at https://tinyurl.com/xwwuut4a .
10. Passengers traveling to Puglia must present a completed health declaration form upon arrival. The form can be obtained at https://www.sanita.puglia.it/web/pugliasalute/autosegnalazione-coronavirus
11. Passengers could be subject to self-isolation for 5 or 10 days and to a COVID-19 antigen or molecular test at the end of self-isolation. More details can be found at https://infocovid.viaggiaresicuri.it/index_en.html .
– This does not apply to:
– passengers arriving from Andorra, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Hong Kong (SAR China), Finland, France, French Guiana, French West Indies (only Guadeloupe and Martinique), Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (Rep.), Israel, Japan, Jordan, Korea Rep., Kosovo (Rep.), Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao (SAR China), Malta, Mayotte, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay or USA with:
– an EU Digital Covid Certificate (EU DCC); or
– a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria), Janssen, Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) at least 14 days before arrival. The certificate must be in English, French, Italian or Spanish; or
– a COVID-19 recovery certificate. The certificate must be in English, French, Italian or Spanish. Their accompanying children younger than 18 years are also exempt;
– passengers arriving from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa or Zimbabwe.
12. Passengers traveling to Sicily who in the past 14 days have been in or transited through France, Greece, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal or Spain are subject to a COVID-19 test upon arrival.
13. Passengers traveling to Pescara (PSR) from Malta, Spain or United Kingdom are subject to a COVID-19 test upon arrival and self-isolation until the test result is ready.
Detailed Tourist Information
Italy has divided countries from list A to E. Please take a look to see which list your country belongs to:
• List A – Vatican City and Republic of San Marino
• List B – The States and territories with low epidemiological risk will be identified, among those in List C, by the Ordinance (At present, no state is included on this list.)
• List C – Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark (including the Fare Islands and Greenland), Estonia, Finland, France (including Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Reunion, Mayotte and excluding other territories outside the European mainland), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands (excluding territories outside the European mainland), Poland, Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira), Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (including territories on the African continent), Sweden, Hungary, Iceland,
Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Andorra, Principality of Monaco.
• List D – Saudi Arabia, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Israel, Kuwait, New Zealand, Qatar, Rwanda, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (including Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, Channel Islands and British bases on the island of Cyprus and excluding territories not belonging to the European continent), Republic of Korea, Singapore, United States of America, Ukraine, Uruguay, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and the States.
• List E – Rest of the world – (all States and Territories not specifically referred to in any other list).
Countries from List A to D are allowed entry for tourism. Entry from List E is only allowed for specific reasons such as work, heath, study reasons. For more info, please refer to this link: https://www.eui.eu/en/public/covid-19-information/travelling-to-italy-from-abroad-covid19
Tourist entry requirements are different for every country depending on which list your country belongs to. Here are the list of requirements for each list:
• List A (there is no limitation nor dPLF declaration requirement.)
• List C
– EU Digital Covid Certificate
– Passenger Location form
Failure to submit even just one of these documents entails self-isolation at the address indicated on the Passenger Locator Form for 5 days, at the end of which an antigen or molecular swab test will be carried out. Please visit the following link to get the exact requirements for list C: https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioContenutiNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=english&id=5412&area=nuovoCoronavirus&menu=vuoto&tab=3
• List D
– fill out the Passenger Locator Form prior to entering Italy
– take a negative molecular or antigen swab test in the 72 hours prior to entering Italy. But in the case of arrivals from the UK and Northern Ireland and British Isles, the swab test must be taken in the 48 hours prior to entering Italy.
– present the COVID-19 Green Certificate.
– 5 days in self-isolation
• List E
– EU Digital Covid Certificate
– Passenger Location form
– Proof of vaccination or recovery
Swab test taken 72 hours prior
– self-isolation for 10 days and undergo an additional molecular or antigenic swab at the end of the 10-days
All passengers should fill the digital passenger locator form unless you are traveling domestically in Italy. Please refer to this link: https://app.euplf.eu/#/
Children under the age of six are always exempt from the requirement for a molecular or antigenic test but must still self-isolate if the adult(s) accompanying them cannot show the required documentation.
If you are unable to obtain an EU Digital COVID Certificate, you can enter Italy but you must provide valid proof of either a certificate of vaccination with an EMA approved vaccine, a certificate of recovery from COVID-19, or a pre-departure negative COVID-19 test – either antigen or molecular (PCR) – taken no more than 48 hours prior to entry.
In case of stay or transit through a “List C” country during the 14 days prior to the entrance in Italy, entry is permitted without the need to specify the reason for travelling (specific and updated rules for each country of origin are available at ViaggiareSicuri and at Covid-19 – Viaggiatori. You can also check if you are part of List C here: https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioContenutiNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=5412&area=nuovoCoronavirus&menu=vuoto&tab=3.)
All passengers who cannot provide either a certificate of vaccination or a certificate of recovery from COVID-19 are subject to the requirement for a pre-departure negative COVID-19 test – either antigen or molecular (PCR) – taken no more than 48 hours prior to entry (Accepted tests: molecular (PCR) and antigenic)
Lockdown Details
Many of the restrictive coronavirus measures have now been eased. The following restrictions remain:
The mandatory use of masks in all outdoor spaces where social distancing is not possible, and whilst indoors. Children, under the age of 6, do not need to wear a mask. You should pay close attention to signage when travelling and carry a mask with you at all times
Social distancing of one metre must be observed and gatherings should be avoided
Cinemas, theatres and concert venues are open with limited capacity and pre-assigned seating
Museums and exhibits should be pre-booked at least one day in advance
Limited attendance to outdoor competitive group sports
A “green pass” https://bit.ly/2ZpPbj6) is required to access many public spaces including indoor seating in bars and restaurants, museums, exhibitions, well-being centres, swimming pools, fairs and large events. A green pass is required to participate in civil or religious ceremonies. Tourists are required to show a green pass if they wish to use the indoor wellness facilities in their hotel including swimming pools, gyms and spas. A green pass is also required to access most forms of transport, see Travel in Italy (https://bit.ly/3i5gmq3)
Children under the age of 12 are exempt from presenting a green pass for domestic events and activities.
Information on regional classifications, or on regional COVID zones, is available on the Ministry of Health website (in English).
Sources
https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioContenutiNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=english&id=5412&area=nuovoCoronavirus&menu=vuoto
Data Source: covidcontrols.co
