Hello,
is here anyone from italy who can help? I drive in two weeks for a few days to my uncle in italy. I have always a knive on my belt or the jacket. My question is, is it alowed to carry knives in the public in italy, folder or fixed blades, or must I let is at home. What says the law.

Thanks, Martin

you could always call the italian poice dept near you uncles home town and ask........... just a thought. or email them

You are not allowed to carry knives in Italy - Lorenzo

....and anyway, if I have to type "Germany" I always start with a capital letter. You wrote 3 times "italy"..... - Lorenzo

Lorenzo,
I totally agree with you. It is a way to express respect.

Thanks Stefano, I highly regard your opinion. - Lorenzo

Lorenzo,
thanks for info and sorry for my mistake with the "I".
I hope, you forgive me.
I´m yet happy, if I wrote anything in Enlish, that I haven´t so many mistakes.
And by the way, it´s not importent for me if you write "germany" or "Germany", it´s better you write "Bavaria". Germany is the no needed appendix of Bavaria.

Martin

Ok, Martin, that's fine. - Lorenzo

In our country you can carry o take in the car a knive only if you have a justified cause. So if you go for mushrooms in the forest you cna carry the knive. If you go for a picnic you can carry the knive for cut salami and cheese. Abosolutely you cannot carry the knive if you go in a shop, in a bar ect.

Since it is very difficult for a foreigner tourist to justify the possession of a knife, since he is not supposed to go mushrooming, or meet the other (very few) valid reasons to possess a knife for our law, it is much better for him to let the knife at home..... - Lorenzo

It's a fairly common practice to carry a small folding knife here in the States. Especially true with working and farm people.

Most parts or areas in our country do limit the size of the knife.

I do agree that a knife in a bar or were drinking is involved is seldom a good thing.