Italy and Italians

@fausto will know...

When we trained it across Italy last year (Marseille - Milan - Padova) we used hire bikes in each town and borrowed bikes for riding the countryside. It seemed too complicated to bother bringing our own

I've done it without any bother, but it was ten years ago so the regulations might have changed.

Check seat61 web site they had good info on info and were quick to answer questions by email.