Milan Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a flat in Milan and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you can, and you can do it with the whole apartment rather than a spare room. Lombardy's capital has no ban, no cap on nights, and no neighbourhood where short lets are off limits. Milan treats a stay of 30 nights or fewer as an ordinary residential lease, so nobody is going to make you change the property's planning use or win a licence lottery first.

The catch is that three separate governments regulate you at once, and every one of them moved in the last eighteen months. The national government cut the number of apartments you can run outside a business from four to two with effect from January 2026. Regione Lombardia published a minimum-standards annex that now decides how many beds your floor area is allowed to hold. Milan itself banned lockboxes on lampposts in December 2025, then took the tourist tax on short lets up to €9.50 per guest per night for the Olympic year. None of that closes the market, mind you. It does mean a flat that was compliant in 2024 might not be compliant today.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly: which filing Milan wants and what it costs, the two codes you need before a listing can legally go live, the standards your apartment has to meet, the three layers of tax, and who to call when something goes sideways. Every figure below comes from the comune, the region, the Agenzia delle Entrate or the statute itself, checked in July 2026, and where something is still moving I've said so. Before any of it, run the property through BNBCalc and see whether the numbers survive a €9.50 nightly tax.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Milan

Before that tax matters, though, you have to decide which kind of activity you're running, because Milan draws that line harder than most Italian cities and the paperwork follows from it.

The route almost every host wants is the locazione di alloggi per finalità turistiche, shortened to LT and known to everyone as an affitto breve. Milan's own business portal defines it as letting a dwelling for tourism for periods not exceeding 30 days under article 53 of the Codice del turismo, article 1 comma 2 of law 431/1998 and article 1571 of the civil code.

The same page then says plainly that letting a dwelling "non è inquadrabile tra le attività ricettive". That's the sentence doing all the work, because it means an LT is not a hotel-style receptive structure and not the same thing as a casa e appartamento per vacanze.

Since an LT isn't a receptive structure, Milan drops four duties you would otherwise carry: no civil liability policy to hold, no prices to notify, no breakfast or food service allowed, and no compulsory closing period. That's a lighter load than a B&B carries down the same street.

It cuts the other way once, though, and it catches people out. There is no temporary suspension for an LT. Regione Lombardia reserves that to genuine receptive structures, so a host who wants to pause and sign a six-month transitional lease has to close the LT position and open a new one later.

Two objective conditions decide whether the property qualifies at all. It has to sit in cadastral category A1 to A11 excluding A10, which is offices, and it has to keep residential planning use and meet the ordinary hygiene and building requirements for a home.

Note what that second one does for you. Nothing here asks the comune's planning department for permission, which is why Milan has no zoning fight over short lets in the way that some Italian cities do.

The threshold that changed in 2026 is how many of these you can run before the tax authorities stop calling you a private landlord. Milan's own tax office published the change in July 2026: under article 1 comma 17 of law 199/2025, the budget law for 2026, the short-term letting regime applies to a maximum of two apartments per taxpayer per tax period, down from four. Count yours before you file.

Go past two and the activity is presumed to be carried on in business form under article 2082 of the civil code, whoever is doing it. The Agenzia delle Entrate says the same thing in its April 2026 guide, and it matters well beyond your tax return, because business form pulls you into a SCIA, a VAT number and a different rulebook.

Services can tip you over the same line without you owning a third flat. Linen, cleaning, wi-fi and phone are fine and stay inside the regime. Serving breakfast, supplying food and drink, renting cars or laying on guides and interpreters counts as business activity in the Agenzia's reading, even when done occasionally. So keep the offer to accommodation and its housekeeping, and do check anything you're tempted to bundle in against that list.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Milan

Assuming you land on the non-business side of that threshold, there's still a filing to make, though it's a short one, and it's worth knowing that it isn't a licence at all.

What Lombardy requires is a CIA, a comunicazione di inizio attività. Article 38 comma 1-bis of regional law 27/2015 puts every non-entrepreneurial tourist letting and every locazione breve under a duty of prior communication to the comune, while entrepreneurial operators file a SCIA instead. Milan takes that communication telematically through the national platform impresainungiorno.gov.it and nowhere else, and its effects start the moment you submit. No approval. No waiting period. No inspection before you can take a booking.

The money side is small and non-refundable. Since 15 January 2024, Milan has charged diritti di istruttoria on SUAP filings under Giunta resolution 1250 of 21 September 2023, and the fee schedule sets a tourist letting at €70.00 to start, in either entrepreneurial or non-entrepreneurial form, with structural variations at another €70.00 and cessation free.

You pay by pagoPA inside the platform. The comune states that the fee doesn't come back if the practice ends badly, including a withdrawal or a refusal for missing documents, so it's worth getting the file right before you submit it. One filing covers one unit, which means a second apartment needs a second communication with its own cadastral data.

Skipping the CIA is the expensive mistake here. Article 39 comma 1-bis of the regional law sets the penalty for running a non-entrepreneurial tourist letting or a locazione breve without one at €2,000 to €20,000, the same band as opening an unregistered hotel. Comma 4 then doubles it on repeat violations, and lets the comune suspend the activity for up to three months or shut it down.

Remember that the fine tracks the missing paperwork rather than any harm done. A quiet, well-run flat is exactly as exposed as a noisy one.

Then come the two codes, and the order is fixed. Once the communication is in, Milan's SUAP works to a 30-day procedural term and passes the file to Città Metropolitana di Milano, which registers the unit in the regional tourist-flows system, ROSS1000.

That registration generates your CIR, the Codice Identificativo di Riferimento: six digits for the ISTAT code of the comune, three letters for the structure type, five sequential characters. Nobody posts it to you. You log into ROSS1000 with SPID and read it off your own record, and Milan's SUAP warns in capitals that it can't tell you anything about the CIR, because the assignment isn't its to make.

With the CIR in hand you request the national code. The CIN comes free from the Ministero del Turismo through the Banca Dati delle Strutture Ricettive at bdsr.ministeroturismo.gov.it, using SPID or CIE.

Under article 13-ter of decree-law 145/2023 you must then display the CIN outside the building holding the apartment and quote it in every advertisement wherever published, and the platforms carry the same duty in their listings. Renting without a CIN draws €800 to €8,000. Holding one and failing to display or quote it draws €500 to €5,000 per unit, plus immediate removal of the offending advert.

One wrinkle worth knowing, because Milan's own page will mislead you on it. That SUAP page still quotes a regional fine of €500 to €2,500 for advertising without the CIR, under article 39 comma 3-bis. Going through the consolidated regional text, that comma and the advertising duty behind it were both repealed by regional law 20 of 6 December 2024, once the national CIN took the job over. So the code that has to appear in your listing is the CIN, and the live advertising penalty is the national one.

Required Documents for Milan Short-Term Rentals

Since none of those codes arrive without the communication that triggers them, it pays to have the underlying paperwork straight before you open the form.

The submission itself is thin. You need SPID or CIE to authenticate, the full cadastral data of the unit, and the Lombardy unified module for tourist lettings approved by regional decree 13056 of 17 September 2019. Milan sets no personal eligibility requirements at all for an LT, so no professional qualification, no good-character certificate and no company structure. What you file instead is a set of self-declarations, and it's the declarations rather than the attachments that carry the risk.

The heaviest of them is your certification that the apartment meets the regional minimum standards, because those standards changed.

Regolamento regionale 6 of 30 July 2025, published in Gazzetta Ufficiale on 10 January 2026, inserted a new article 3-bis and an Allegato G bis into Lombardy's 2016 extra-hotel regulation. For the first time it defines minimum requirements and services for dwellings let for tourism, locazioni brevi expressly included, and it's been in force since it appeared in the regional bulletin on 1 August 2025.

Its sharpest provision decides how many people you may sleep. Capacity is calculated from Superficie Utile, net of bathrooms and the kitchen, with a 5% tolerance, and the bands are applied progressively rather than picking one rate for the whole flat:

Floor area band (net)	Beds allowed
Up to 48 m²	1 bed per 8 m²
49 m² to 84 m²	1 bed per 12 m²
Over 85 m²	1 bed per 14 m²

The regulation even works the example for you: an 84 m² apartment gets 48 ÷ 8 = 6 beds for the first band, plus (84 − 48) ÷ 12 = 3 for the second, so 9 beds in total. Anything over 8 beds has to have a second bathroom. So measure before you furnish.

Keep in mind that this is the most common way a listing that was fine in 2024 has quietly gone over the line, because squeezing an extra sofa bed into a small flat no longer survives the sums.

The rest of Allegato G bis reads like a furnishing checklist, and it is enforceable:

• Utilities: electricity, hot and cold water, and heating of the dwelling and any common parts, with the systems compliant and periodically inspected.
• Kitchen: a complete kitchen with fridge, sink and draining board, and an oven or an alternative cooking system, plus pots, cutlery and plates in proportion to capacity.
• Living area: a table with chairs proportionate to maximum capacity plus two spares, a sofa proportionate to capacity, and a living-room unit. A sofa bed counts only in a studio or in the living room of a multi-room flat.
• Bedrooms: a bed, a bedside table or equivalent per sleeping place, a wardrobe, a mirror, a waste basket and a bedside lamp.
• Bathroom: washbasin, shower or bath, WC and bidet, the bidet waivable where it's technically impossible.
• Service: check-in or key handover agreed in advance, cleaning at every guest changeover, and fresh linen at every changeover.
• Condition: the unit must be agibile, in good repair, with clean walls and floors and everything working.

Safety equipment sits in the same annex but takes its detail from national law. Article 13-ter requires working gas and carbon monoxide detectors in every unit, plus portable fire extinguishers to standard, sited where they're accessible and visible, at one per 200 m² of floor area or fraction thereof, with a minimum of one per floor.

Missing that kit is worth €600 to €6,000 per violation, which is a lot of money for a €40 detector. And once you're operating, article 38 comma 2 of the regional law makes you display a copy of the filed communication visibly inside the property, alongside the comune's tourist-tax notice.

Milan Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all of that and are able to start hosting, there's still tax to handle, and it arrives in three unrelated pieces run by three different bodies.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Imposta di soggiorno, locazioni brevi	€9.50 per guest per night, max 14 nights	Comune di Milano
Cedolare secca on rental income	21% on one unit, 26% on the rest	Agenzia delle Entrate
Platform withholding on gross rent	21%, on account	Airbnb, Vrbo and other intermediaries

The tourist tax is the one guests see. Milan's tariff schedule in force from 1 April 2026, set by Giunta resolution 144 of 12 February 2026, puts Locazioni Brevi ex D.L. 50/2017 at €9.50 per person per night, the same rate as bed and breakfasts, holiday apartments, locande and affittacamere, against €3.00 for a hostel and €12.00 for a five-star hotel.

The comune's regulation caps it at fourteen consecutive nights, drops it entirely from the fifteenth, and restarts the count if the run of nights breaks. Residents of Milan don't pay it at all.

That €9.50 is high by Italian standards, and it's high on purpose. When the Giunta approved the 2026 rates in November 2025 it called them "valide solo per il 2026", because decree-law 156 of 29 October 2025 lets Lombardy and Veneto comuni within 30 kilometres of an Olympic venue raise the tax by up to €5 a night for the Milano Cortina Games. Half the uplift goes to the State.

So treat the €9.50 as a rate that moves, and be aware that the 2027 schedule is a live question rather than a settled one.

Whether you collect it yourself depends on where the booking comes from. The comune's regulation treats real-estate intermediaries and online portal operators as soggetti gestori, responsible for the payment under article 4 comma 5-ter of decree-law 50/2017, and Airbnb's Milan page confirms it collects the tourist tax at booking and pays it to the comune by the set deadline, refunding exempt guests afterwards on request.

Direct bookings are yours to handle. Either way the comune still wants the paperwork: remittance within fifteen days of each calendar quarter, a cumulative telematic declaration by 30 June of the following year, and the conto di gestione by 30 January. Those quarterly dates are 15 April, 15 July, 15 October and 15 January. Milan's Soggiorniamo portal has demanded a CIN on every unit since September 2025, which quietly turns the tax return into a compliance check.

Get the tourist tax wrong and the penalties are proportional rather than dramatic: 30% of anything unpaid, late or short, 100% to 200% of the amount due for an omitted or untruthful declaration, and €25 to €500 for any other breach of the regulation. Interest runs at the legal rate plus half a point, and refunds below €50 aren't paid at all.

Income tax takes the bigger bite. Under the cedolare secca, a flat substitute for Irpef and local surcharges, the Agenzia delle Entrate charges 26% on short-let income, cut to 21% on a single property unit of your choosing per tax period, nominated in the annual return.

Two details catch people out. The rate applies to the entire contract amount with no 5% forfait deduction, unlike ordinary long lets. And where a platform handles the money it withholds 21% on account of the gross rent, including any commission you owe it, pays that over by F24 using tax code 1919, and certifies it to you, leaving you to settle the difference in the return.

Intermediaries also report your name, tax code, the contract duration, the address, the CIN and the gross amount to the Agenzia by 30 June of the following year.

Stack the three layers and the gap between headline nightly rate and take-home is wider in Milan than most spreadsheets assume, which is worth modelling in BNBCalc before you sign anything.

Italy Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Those reporting duties are the clearest sign of where the Italian system has gone: the national layer now knows who you are, and it knows before any comune does.

The CIN is the spine of it. Article 13-ter of decree-law 145/2023, converted by law 191/2023, has the Ministero del Turismo assign a national identifying code to every dwelling let for tourism or under the short-let regime, and to every hotel and extra-hotel structure.

The Ministry published the go-live notice on 3 September 2024, the provisions applied from 2 November 2024, and anything already trading had to hold a CIN by 1 January 2025. Lombardy joined the database early, on 3 July 2024, which is why Lombard hosts have carried both codes for longer than most.

Guest reporting is older and stricter than people expect. Under article 109 of the TULPS and the ministerial decree of 7 January 2013, anyone lodging guests must send their details to the competent Questura through the Servizio Alloggiati Web within 24 hours of arrival, and on arrival itself where the stay is shorter than 24 hours. Omitting it carries criminal exposure, not merely an administrative fine.

How you identify those guests became the biggest operational fight of the last two years, and it's now settled against pure self check-in. The Chief of Police issued a circular on 18 November 2024 requiring identification de visu, the extra-hotel federation had it annulled at the Lazio administrative court, and on 21 November 2025 the Consiglio di Stato reversed that and restored the circular.

The court held that article 109 can only be satisfied by a visual check, though it accepted video-link devices at the entrance where they establish hic et nunc that the person matches the document. What it rejected by name is the practice of collecting a document scan and then sending door codes or key-box codes with no visual check at all.

So make sure your check-in flow puts a human eye, live or on camera, between the guest and the key.

Two other things sit above Milan and are worth diarising. The two-apartment cap under law 199/2025 applies from the 2026 tax period, so a host who ran three or four flats legally through 2025 is presumed to be in business this year unless something changes.

Then there's Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 on short-term rental data, which the European Commission's own tourism platform records as applying from 20 May 2026. It obliges platforms to verify registration numbers and hand activity data to national entry points every month. Italy built its half of that early with the CIN, so for a Milan host the effect is less new paperwork and more that the data now joins up completely.

Does Milan Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Joined-up data is exactly how Milan enforces, which makes the honest answer yes, though not in the shape most owners picture.

Nobody knocks on the door first. Article 13-ter comma 11 gives the CIN and safety fines to the comune's local police, hands the proceeds to the comune for tourism and waste spending, and then requires the results of those checks to be sent to the local office of the Agenzia delle Entrate. Comma 12 has the Agenzia and the Guardia di Finanza run joint risk analyses aimed specifically at units let without a CIN.

Between the platforms' June filing, the comune's tax portal demanding a CIN per unit, and ROSS1000 holding a record of every registered flat, a listing with a missing code stands out in a database long before an inspector sees the building. The Agenzia gets there first.

Four bodies can each fine you separately for the same badly run apartment, which is the part hosts underestimate:

• The comune, €2,000 to €20,000 for trading without the CIA, doubled on repeat, with suspension or closure available in serious cases.
• The local police, €800 to €8,000 for no CIN, €500 to €5,000 plus advert removal for not displaying it, and €600 to €6,000 for missing detectors or extinguishers.
• Città Metropolitana di Milano, €250 to €2,500 for each month of missing or incomplete tourist-flow reporting, plus €250 for each unjustified refusal of access to its inspectors.
• The Area Tributi, 30% of unpaid tourist tax and 100% to 200% of an untruthful annual declaration.

The street-level enforcement everyone talks about is the lockbox. On 4 December 2025 the Consiglio comunale added article 90 to the Regolamento di Polizia Urbana, banning key boxes on street furniture, road signs, fences, gates, lampposts or any other structure on public land, and on private structures that face or overhang public space. It took effect thirty days later.

Devices found in breach "possono essere rimossi coattivamente dagli uffici competenti, senza obbligo di preavviso", at the owner's cost, and the fine runs from €100 to €400. Milan followed Rome and Florence, and the resolution cites drug dealing through key boxes in recent investigations as one of its reasons.

What I can't give you is a scorecard. Unlike Rome, which publishes annual inspection and recovery figures, Milan hasn't put out short-term rental enforcement statistics I could find on an official page, and no authority publishes a count of registered short lets in the city either. So judge the risk from the machinery rather than from a hit rate, and note that the machinery is mostly automatic.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Milan

Given how many of those duties attach at different moments, the sequence below matters more than it looks, since a step done out of order usually means paying the €70 twice.

1. Check the property qualifies. Cadastral category A1 to A11, excluding A10, with residential planning use and ordinary dwelling standards met. If the flat is an office on paper, this stops here.
2. Measure it and count the beds. Work the Allegato G bis formula on Superficie Utile net of bathrooms and kitchen before you buy furniture, and remember the second bathroom becomes mandatory above 8 beds.
3. Fit it out to the annex. Kitchen, living area, bedroom and bathroom fittings, plus gas and carbon monoxide detectors and an extinguisher for every 200 m² or part of it, minimum one per floor.
4. Count your apartments. Two per tax period keeps you in the short-let regime. A third pushes you into presumed business form, and a SCIA rather than a CIA.
5. File the communication. Through impresainungiorno.gov.it to Milan's SUAP, with the Lombardy unified module and your cadastral data, paying €70 by pagoPA. The activity is lawful from submission.
6. Wait for the CIR, then fetch it yourself. The SUAP has 30 days to pass the file to Città Metropolitana, which registers you in ROSS1000. Log in with SPID and read the code off your own record.
7. Request the CIN in the Ministry's BDSR portal, then display it outside the building and add it to every listing on every platform.
8. Set up the guest reporting on Alloggiati Web with the Questura, and design a check-in that identifies each guest visually, in person or by live video.
9. Register for the tourist tax on Milan's Soggiorniamo portal, enter the CIN, and diarise the quarterly remittances plus the 30 June declaration.
10. Post the notices inside the flat: a copy of the filed communication and the comune's official tourist-tax material, which also has to appear on the site or portal advertising the property.

Who to Contact in Milan about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Whichever of those steps stalls, five offices handle nearly everything between them, and matching the question to the right one saves an irritating amount of time.

The filing, and anything about the communication itself

The Unità Servizio Orientamento Fare Impresa ed ex TULPS is Milan's SUAP unit for receptive activities and tourist lettings, and it runs its phone support jointly with the Chamber of Commerce.

• Phone: 02 22178000
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 17:00
• Filing portal: impresainungiorno.gov.it, the only accepted channel
• Fee refunds: [email protected]

Don't ask this office about your CIR. It says in capitals on its own page that the code isn't its to assign and it can't report on it.

The CIR and monthly guest-flow statistics

Città Metropolitana di Milano registers your unit in ROSS1000, issues the CIR through it, and polices the statistical reporting.

• Email: [email protected]
• PEC: [email protected]
• ROSS1000 technical support: [email protected], freephone 800 070 090
• Portal: flussituristici.servizirl.it/Turismo5/app, SPID login
• Deadline: arrivals and presences by the 5th of the following month, every month

The tourist tax

The Area Tributi, Unità Tributo immobili, Imposta di soggiorno e Addizionali administers the imposta di soggiorno, the Soggiorniamo portal and the annual declaration.

• Address: via Silvio Pellico 18, 20121 Milano
• Phone: 020202, the comune's contact centre
• Email: [email protected]
• PEC: [email protected]
• Portal: milano.entrateonline.net

The national code

The Ministero del Turismo runs the BDSR and assigns the CIN, and its helpdesk answers on 06 170179 051, Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00, or at [email protected].

Guest reporting and general enquiries

Guest declarations go to the Questura di Milano through the Servizio Alloggiati Web, and the credentials come from the Questura rather than from the comune. For anything else, including the Polizia Locale and the lockbox rules, the Comune di Milano sits at Piazza della Scala 2, 20121 Milano, on contact centre 020202.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Milan on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those five offices explain most of what hosts complain about, and the complaints cluster in a pattern that's fairly easy to recognise. What follows is my read of the recurring themes rather than a survey, so do weigh it accordingly.

• The layering is the grievance, not any single rule. No individual requirement is heavy. Filing once with the comune, once with the region through an intermediary body, and once with a ministry, then reporting monthly to one and quarterly to another, is what wears people down. A €70 fee and a same-day start read generously next to the licence lotteries elsewhere in Europe.
• The CIR wait produces the most confusion. Hosts routinely expect the SUAP to hand them the code, and it never does. The gap between filing and finding a CIR sitting in ROSS1000 depends on Città Metropolitana, not on Milan, and neither body chases it for you. Don't forget to log in and check rather than waiting for an email that isn't coming.
• The trade bodies fought identification and lost, on the record. This is the one piece of sector sentiment that isn't interpretation. The Federazione Associazioni Ricettività Extralberghiera brought the case against the identification circular, Confindustria Alberghi and Federalberghi joined the litigation, and the Consiglio di Stato decided against remote-only check-in in November 2025. Whatever operators think of it, self check-in as most of them built it is finished.
• Allegato G bis is the sleeper. From what I can tell, far fewer Milan hosts have re-measured their apartments than have removed their key boxes, and the bed formula is the requirement most likely to bite an existing listing that has never had a problem.

One thing I want to be careful about, since Italian property forums are full of it. Milan politicians have floated night caps and containment zones for the central neighbourhoods more than once, yet none of it exists as an adopted rule. Searching the comune's own acts in July 2026 turned up no cap, no zone restriction and no moratorium.

A proposal isn't a rule, so don't plan around one. When it's the numbers you're weighing rather than the rules, the Milan market data shows what a compliant flat earns, and BNBCalc will model a specific address against the €9.50 tax and the bed limit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Milan in 2026?

Yes. Milan permits short-term rentals of whole apartments with no ban, cap or zone restriction, for stays of 30 nights or fewer. You file a comunicazione di inizio attività with the city's SUAP through impresainungiorno.gov.it for €70, then obtain a regional CIR through the ROSS1000 system and a national CIN from the Ministero del Turismo. The property must be in cadastral category A1 to A11 excluding A10 and keep residential planning use.

How much does it cost to register a short-term rental in Milan?

Milan charges €70.00 in processing fees to start a tourist letting through the SUAP, whether it is run in business form or not, under Giunta resolution 1250 of 21 September 2023. Structural variations cost another €70.00 and cessation is free. The fee is paid by pagoPA inside impresainungiorno.gov.it and is not refunded if the application fails. Both the regional CIR and the national CIN are free.

How much is the tourist tax on a short-term rental in Milan?

€9.50 per guest per night, for a maximum of 14 consecutive nights, under the tariff schedule in force from 1 April 2026 set by Giunta resolution 144 of 12 February 2026. Residents of Milan, under-18s, disabled guests with their companions and several other categories are exempt. Airbnb collects and remits it automatically, while direct bookings are the host's responsibility, with quarterly remittance and an annual declaration by 30 June.

How many apartments can you rent short-term in Milan before it becomes a business?

Two. Article 1 comma 17 of law 199/2025, the 2026 budget law, cut the short-let tax regime from four apartments to a maximum of two per taxpayer per tax period, effective 1 January 2026. Beyond two, the activity is presumed to be carried on in business form under article 2082 of the civil code, which means a SCIA at the SUAP instead of a communication, a VAT number and the associated obligations.

Are key boxes and self check-in allowed in Milan?

Not on public property, and not without a visual identity check. Milan added article 90 to its Regolamento di Polizia Urbana on 4 December 2025, banning key boxes on street furniture, railings, gates and lampposts on public land, with fines of €100 to €400 plus forced removal at the owner's cost. Separately, the Consiglio di Stato ruled in November 2025 that guests must be identified visually, in person or by live video link.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.