Have driven in France quite a lot,and plan on renting a car in Italy this year. Can I assume, aside from language, that driving is similar?

Welcome to SlowTrav! Over on the main site is a wealth of information, including a large section on Driving in Italy in the Instructions pages.

Hi Barnum, and welcome to ST! I see that Amy has just beat me to it, but since I've already copied it here is the link to instructions for driving in Italy. But if you look at the link Amy posted, you will probably find answers to many, many questions you didn't yet know you had.

M

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Originally posted by Barnum:
Have driven in France quite a lot,and plan on renting a car in Italy this year. Can I assume, aside from language, that driving is similar?

The link Marian posted above will help you with differences in the rules of the road, but to answer from a "how it feels driving" perspective, the autostrade and country roads feel fairly similar to their French counterparts, but I think the city driving (depending vastly on where you are) is just a little more frenzied. Not enough that if you're comfortable driving in French cities you'll have any real problem, just enough to give you a little adreniline edge maybe