Driving from Padua to Urbino

It also will have fewer tolls.

Yes, I’ve driven it, more than once. It’s called Via Romea, and it’s a 2 lane highway (one per direction) where it’s nearly impossible to pass other vehicles, unless you like the thrill of near head-on collisions.

After you manage to pass a few vehicles, if you so dare, the scenery you will enjoy for a very long time is the back of one of the many diesel fumes spewing trucks proceeding at slow pace in front of you, that will be next to impossible to pass because you won’t be able to see well what is coming from the opposite direction. Other than the view of the back of the truck in front, you will be able to see a flat mosquito infested agricultural plain on the sides. Occasionally you will also be stuck without moving, because you can rest assure that in summer, somewhere, they are re-paving the road, and since there are only two lanes, traffic will have to alternate in the two directions through the only lane available. If while stuck in traffic, you open the window and you detect the awful smell of fresh asphalt, it means you are getting close to the section of the road where they are actually working. That is a bad smell, but it is a good sign that soon the long line will end, at least until the next road work.

Thank you. That is very helpful, if not as encouraging as I might hope.

If you are not in a hurry to get there, you can take it. But to me the scenery on that road is not worth the extra time and frustration. I hate being stuck behind trucks on two lane roads.