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The country is bordered by France to the northwest, Austria and Switzerland to the north and Slovenia to the northeast. In real life, it also shares borders with the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It is located to the south of the map, and initially featured only 3 different cities in northern Italy. Italy was expanded with 19 new cities in the Italia DLC, released on 5 December 2017, filling out most of the rest of the country. Additional cities would also be added to Italy in update 1.11, update 1.35, and update 1.48.5.
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Italy is a country famous for its cuisine, fashion, art and architecture. It covers an area of 301,338 square km and has a total of 487,700 km of paved roads, 6,700 km of which are motorways. It has both great ski resorts in the Alps and lovely beaches by the sea.
There are thirteen ferry routes which operate services to / from Italy. All ferry services originating from Italy are operated by Eolo Lines, with the exception of services from Trieste, which are operated by Polaris Lines.
On the initial release of Euro Truck Simulator 2, only three cities in Italy were included in the game: Torino, Milano, and Verona. However, over subsequent updates and DLC releases, many more cities would be added to the country.
In update 1.11, a new road would be added through southern Austria and northeastern Italy, connecting Verona with Wien (dubbed the "Road to Venice" in promotional material). Along this route, the city of Venezia would be added.
9 June 2014: Blog post teasing the "Road to Venice".[1]
17 June 2014: Blog post about the Italy-Austria border.[2]
Following the release of the Vive la France! map expansion, Italy would become the subject of the next major map expansion: Italia. The expansion upon initial release would include 19 new cities, along with a rework of the existing city of Milano (which would be included in update 1.30). After release, update 1.35 would also add the island of Sardinia to the Italia map expansion, including three new cities.
4 August 2017: A cryptic blog post teasing an Italian map expansion.[6]
11 August 2017: Blog post revealing the Italia DLC.[7]
8 September 2017: Blog post about landmarks and architecture in Italy.[8]
22 September 2017: Blog post about ring roads in Italy.[9]
6 October 2017: Blog post about new industries in Italy.[10]
25 October 2017: Blog post about reworking the base game area of Italy.[11]
20 November 2017: Blog post about the island of Sicily.[12]
24 November 2017: Italia DLC promotional trailer release.[13]
29 November 2017: Italia DLC release date announcement.[14]
1 December 2017: Update 1.30 is released, featuring the rework of Milano (as well as other minor map changes).[15]
5 December 2017: Italia map expansion is released.[16]
18 April 2019: Blog post announcing the addition of Sardinia.[17]
In preparation for the release of the West Balkans map expansion, the port cities of Ancona and Bari would be updated, and a new city, Trieste, would be added to the base game in update 1.48.5.
SCS announced a complete rebuild of Switzerland, which would also affect some areas in northwestern Italy. The changes would be released in update 1.50.
30 March 2023: Blog post featuring some screenshots of the Italian side of the Alps.[22]
10 October 2023: Blog post about Mont Blanc, straddling the border between Italy and France.[23]
14 May 2024: The Switzerland rework is released in update 1.50.[24]
Release History
Italy was included in the initial release of Euro Truck Simulator 2, but only partially, hosting three cities in the northern part of the country.
14 May 2024: Update 1.50 completely reworks Switzerland, which also introduces some changes to the northwestern corner of Italy.
Trivia
Italy has most of its motorways are paid for by toll, the price of which is calculated by the distance from the entry toll to the exit toll.
During development of Euro Truck Simulator 2, Italy was planned to include Bologna, Ancona, Genova, and Roma in addition to the three cities already present, but due to time constraints they were cut. These cities would not be included until the release of the Italia map expansion.
Prior to the release of the Italia DLC, Italy was the only country featured in the game which did not have its capital city accessible.
This was also the case for Poland prior to the Going East! DLC, having omitted Warszawa from the base game.
