Free camping in Tuscany

Tuscany is the region everybody has already decided about, and the motorhome version of it is not the postcard. The stopovers are in the Mugello and the Casentino, the two Apennine valleys north and east of Florence, and in the small towns of the interior between Siena and the coast. The famous places either have no municipal stopover or have a ZTL where you would want to park.

That is not a complaint about Tuscany. It is the practical shape of the trip: sleep in the valleys and the small towns, and go into the cities without the van.

What is mapped here

Every entry is one where a public body has published something about it. In practice that is one of three: the comune’s own website, an unione di comuni or ambito turistico covering a valley, or a municipal company acting for the comune.

The Unione Montana dei Comuni del Mugello does a good deal of that work, publishing a camper brochure covering its whole valley. It is cited on the individual place pages with the date of the document, because a listing from 2022 is worth less than one from this year and you should be able to see which one you are reading.

The valleys

Marradi and Palazzuolo sul Senio are in the upper Mugello, close to the Emilia-Romagna border, on the road that crosses to Faenza. Marradi is chestnut country and has a station on the Faentina line, which is a genuinely useful thing about a stopover: you can leave the van and take the train into Florence in about an hour and a half.

Londa is on the eastern side, on its lake at the foot of the Casentino, and the comune governs its punto sosta by a regolamento of its own.

Firenzuola is the one to read carefully. It sits on the Futa pass road, and since August 2025 it has charged: 6 euros for 24 hours, 10 for two days, 15 for three, and 6 again for carico and scarico if you are not staying. OpenStreetMap still tags it free. It is not.

The hill towns

Vicopisano has an equipped area at piazza Comunardo Ferrucci, free, with a chemical toilet drain, water, lighting and cameras, and a second unequipped area along the Rio Grande about ten minutes’ walk from the historic center. Radicondoli and Monte San Savino are both free; Monte San Savino’s Spazio Fossatello has 22 pitches and is run by the comune’s own azienda speciale. Fosdinovo sits above the Lunigiana with its Malaspina castle, and its water and dump point is a short distance from the stopover rather than on it, which is the kind of detail worth knowing before you arrive with full tanks.

The one about ZTL

Almost every Tuscan town of any age has a zona a traffico limitato over its historic center, camera-enforced at each gate, and each gate is a separate violation. This is the single most common way a visiting driver picks up a fine they learn about months later.

Satnav will route you straight through one. The answer in a motorhome is the same as the answer on foot: park outside and walk in. The stopovers on this page are mostly positioned for exactly that.

Rules

Article 185 of the Codice della Strada is the national position and it is narrow: a motorhome resting on the ground only through its wheels, no wider than itself, is parked and not camped. Drop the levelling legs and you are outside it. What the article does not do is tell you that you may park in a given spot, which is the comune’s decision. The Italy country page carries the text and what follows from it.

Related

• Italy country page
• The Italy map