Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Your Rights
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You should be given verbal and written notice of the charges laid against you within 24 hours by arresting
officers.
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You have no right to a phone call upon arrest.
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The prosecutor must apply to a magistrate for you to be held in preventive custody awaiting trial (depend-
ing on the seriousness of the offence) within 48 hours of arrest.
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You have the right not to respond to questions without the presence of a lawyer.
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If the magistrate orders preventive custody, you have the right to then contest this within the following 10
days.
Maps
The city maps provided in Lonely Planet guides, combined with the good, free local maps available at most
Italian tourist offices, will be sufficient for many travellers. For more-specialised maps, browse the good se-
lection at national bookshop chain Feltrinelli, or consult the websites listed here.
Touring Club Italiano
(TCI;
www.touringclub.com
) Italy's largest map publisher operates shops around
Italy and publishes decent 1:500,000 and 1:200,000 maps of Italy (€11.90 and €19.90 respectively), plus a
series of 15 regional maps at 1:200,000 (€7.90 each) and an exhaustive series of walking guides with maps,
co-published with the Club Alpino Italiano (CAI).
Tabacco
(
www.tabaccoeditrice.com
)
Publishes an excellent 1:25,000 scale series of walking maps, covering
an area from Bormio in the west to the Slovenia border in the east.
Kompass
(
www.kompass-italia.it
)
Publishes 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scale hiking maps of various parts of
Italy, plus a nice series of 1:70,000 cycling maps.
Edizioni Multigraphic Florence
(
www.edizionimultigraphic.it
)
Produces a series of walking maps concen-
trating mainly on the Apennines.
Stanfords
(
www.stanfords.co.uk
)
Excellent UK-based shop that stocks many useful maps.
Omni Resources
(
www.omnimap.com
)
US-based online retailer with an impressive selection of Italian
maps.
Money
The euro is Italy's currency. The seven euro notes come in denominations of €500, €200, €100, €50, €20,
€10 and €5. The eight euro coins are in denominations of €2 and €1, and 50, 20, 10, five, two and one cents.
