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 Lastly, don’t leave your common sense at home.

Emergencies

For medical matters, EU residents need a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). Holders are entitled to free or subsidised emergency treatment in Italy, which has an excellent national health service. UK residents can apply online at www.dh.gov.uk. (If these arrangements change during the life of this book, details will be online at www.cicerone.co.uk in the ‘Updates’ section for this book.) Australia has a similar reciprocal agreement – see www.medicareaustralia.gov.au. Other nationalities need to take out suitable cover. In addition, travel insurance to cover a walking holiday is strongly recommended, as costs for rescue and repatriation can be hefty.

The following may be of help, should problems arise. No charge is made for emergency numbers:

 tel 112 for general emergency calls

 tel 113 for police (polizia)

 tel 118 for health-related emergencies, including ambulance (ambulanza) and mountain rescue (soccorso alpino)

 tel 1515 to report forest fires.