It arrives in Verona on Saturday 18 May Pope Francis: for the occasion, the Municipality has placed a series of parking and transit bans in the city, especially in the streets where the Pope will pass. Some areas of the city, for example San Zeno, will be subject to limitations starting Friday evening.
Pope in Verona: all parking and transit bans
Area San Zeno, where – in the Basilica, first, with priests, religious men and women and nuns; then in the square with children, families and catechists -, the Pope will stay between 8.30, after arriving at the Stadium, and around 10.
There are various road measures that will create inconvenience for residents of the area: such as parking bans San Zeno, Piazza Bra and Stadium area, in some cases even from Friday.
And also transit banshow’s that in via Lega Veronese, in the San Zeno area, between 6 and 11 on Saturday. It should be remembered that anyone who has to enter Piazza San Zeno on Saturday will have to do so between 6.30 and 8, when access will be closed.
However, no precise areas have been foreseen in which residents who keep their cars parked on the street will be able to take them within the parking ban hours, which in some cases will begin as early as 2pm on Friday.
It will be returned Viale Pallazio is also entirely pedestrian, from the station area to the stadium. All information on mobility on the website of the municipality and that of the church of Verona.
Free parking with dedicated pass
From Palazzo Barbieri they let it be known that, with a dedicated pass, for the almost thousand priests and religious who will be in the Basilica of San Zeno, it will be possible to use the car parks in Piazza Corrubbio, in San Zeno, and that in the area of the former Riva di Villasanta barracks for free, which can be accessed from via Da Vico, also in San Zeno.
The free car parks that will be used on Saturday are C near the Bentegodi stadium – the Pope’s arrival area, outside, and at 3pm there will be mass, inside – and then P3 and P7 of the Fair, from where they will depart shuttle buses to the stadium and the Arena, where from around 10am to 12.30pm Pope Francis will be at the Peace Arena, before going to visit the prison.
