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Catalogue section 3.14

Location signs

They mark a boundary between territories, or name a town, river, pass or other place.

How to recognise them: A rectangular board with the place name written on it.

25 signs

  • S-500 · Entering a built-up area

    S-500

    S-500 · Entering a built-up area

    Gives the name of the built-up area you are entering, and the point from which the rules for driving in built-up areas apply. The upper panel reinforces the message that driving must be adapted where pedestrians, cyclists or other vulnerable users are about. The maximum speed allowed on that road from that point may also be given, whatever different limits other roads in the town may carry.

  • S-510 · End of built-up area

    S-510

    S-510 · End of built-up area

    Gives the name of the built-up area you are leaving, and the point from which the rules for driving in built-up areas stop applying.

  • S-520 · Naming the geographic features the road crosses

    S-520

    S-520 · Naming the geographic features the road crosses

    Marks the place where the road crosses a distinctive geographic feature.

  • S-530 · Naming a tunnel on a conventional or multi-lane road, with information about its safety equipment

    S-530

    S-530 · Naming a tunnel on a conventional or multi-lane road, with information about its safety equipment

    Marks a tunnel on a conventional or multi-lane road, including information about its safety equipment and its length.

  • S-531 · Naming a tunnel on a motorway or dual carriageway, with information about its safety equipment

    S-531

    S-531 · Naming a tunnel on a motorway or dual carriageway, with information about its safety equipment

    Marks a tunnel on a motorway or dual carriageway, including information about its safety equipment and its length.

  • S-532 · Naming a tunnel on a conventional or multi-lane road, with information about the particular duties that apply inside it

    S-532

    S-532 · Naming a tunnel on a conventional or multi-lane road, with information about the particular duties that apply inside it

    Marks a tunnel on a conventional or multi-lane road, including information about the particular driving duties that apply inside it.

  • S-533 · Naming a tunnel on a motorway or dual carriageway, with information about the particular duties that apply inside it

    S-533

    S-533 · Naming a tunnel on a motorway or dual carriageway, with information about the particular duties that apply inside it

    Marks a tunnel on a motorway or dual carriageway, including information about the particular driving duties that apply inside it.

  • S-540 · Provincial boundary

    S-540

    S-540 · Provincial boundary

    Marks the point from which the road enters the province named.

  • S-550 · Regional boundary

    S-550

    S-550 · Regional boundary

    Marks the point from which the road enters the autonomous community named.

  • S-551 · River-basin boundary

    S-551

    S-551 · River-basin boundary

    Marks the point from which the road enters the river basin named.

  • S-560 · Regional and provincial boundary

    S-560

    S-560 · Regional and provincial boundary

    Marks the point from which the road enters the autonomous community and province named.

  • S-561 · Authority panel on a conventional or multi-lane road

    S-561

    S-561 · Authority panel on a conventional or multi-lane road

    A sign giving the ownership, number and name of the conventional or multi-lane road you are joining. If the road has no name, the panel carries the word "Carretera" followed by its identifying box.

  • S-562 · Authority panel on a motorway or dual carriageway

    S-562

    S-562 · Authority panel on a motorway or dual carriageway

    A sign giving the ownership, number and name of the motorway or dual carriageway you are joining. If it has no name, the panel carries the word "Autopista" or "Autovía" followed by its identifying box.

  • S-570 · Kilometre marker on a motorway or dual carriageway

    S-570

    S-570 · Kilometre marker on a motorway or dual carriageway

    Gives the kilometre point of the motorway or dual carriageway identified at the top.

  • S-570a · Kilometre marker on a toll motorway

    S-570a

    S-570a · Kilometre marker on a toll motorway

    Gives the kilometre point of the toll motorway identified at the top.

  • S-571 · Kilometre marker on a motorway or dual carriageway belonging to an international route

    S-571

    S-571 · Kilometre marker on a motorway or dual carriageway belonging to an international route

    Gives the kilometre point of the motorway or dual carriageway belonging to an international route, identified at the top of the sign.

  • S-572 · Kilometre marker on a conventional or multi-lane road

    S-572

    S-572 · Kilometre marker on a conventional or multi-lane road

    Gives the kilometre point of a conventional or multi-lane road identified at the top, on a ground whose colour matches the road's class.

  • S-573 · Kilometre marker on a conventional or multi-lane road belonging to an international route

    S-573

    S-573 · Kilometre marker on a conventional or multi-lane road belonging to an international route

    Gives the kilometre point of a conventional or multi-lane road belonging to an international route, whose letters and numbers appear at the top of the sign.

  • S-574 · Ten-kilometre marker on a conventional or multi-lane road

    S-574

    S-574 · Ten-kilometre marker on a conventional or multi-lane road

    Gives the kilometre point of a conventional or multi-lane road when it is a multiple of ten.

  • S-574a · Ten-kilometre marker on a motorway or dual carriageway

    S-574a

    S-574a · Ten-kilometre marker on a motorway or dual carriageway

    Gives the kilometre point of a motorway or dual carriageway when it is a multiple of ten.

  • S-574b · Ten-kilometre marker on a toll motorway

    S-574b

    S-574b · Ten-kilometre marker on a toll motorway

    Gives the kilometre point of a toll motorway when it is a multiple of ten.

  • S-574c · Ten-kilometre marker on a conventional or multi-lane road belonging to an international route

    S-574c

    S-574c · Ten-kilometre marker on a conventional or multi-lane road belonging to an international route

    Gives the kilometre point, when it is a multiple of ten, on a conventional or multi-lane road belonging to an international route identified at the top of the sign.

  • S-574d · Ten-kilometre marker on a motorway or dual carriageway belonging to an international route

    S-574d

    S-574d · Ten-kilometre marker on a motorway or dual carriageway belonging to an international route

    Gives the kilometre point, when it is a multiple of ten, on a motorway or dual carriageway belonging to an international route identified at the top of the sign.

  • S-574e · Ten-kilometre marker on a toll motorway belonging to an international route

    S-574e

    S-574e · Ten-kilometre marker on a toll motorway belonging to an international route

    Gives the kilometre point, when it is a multiple of ten, on a toll motorway that also forms part of an international route identified at the top of the sign.

  • S-575 · Ten-kilometre marker on roads outside the state network

    S-575

    S-575 · Ten-kilometre marker on roads outside the state network

    Gives the kilometre point of a road that is neither a motorway nor a dual carriageway and belongs to a network other than the state's, when it is a multiple of ten. Its colour matches that road's class.

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