Private company

ANAS

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Italian joint-stock company

Anas S.p.A. is an Italian joint-stock company that deals with road infrastructure and manages the network of state roads and motorways of national interest. Founded in 1946 with the name Azienda Nazionale Autonoma delle Strade (ANAS), this acronym became a proper name with the transformation first into a public economic body (1996) and subsequently into a joint-stock company (2002). Since January 2018, it has been part of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane corporate group.2 It was founded by Government of Italy.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1928Founded1

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Sede ANAS a Roma
Photo: Carlo Dani, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Anas S.p.A. is an Italian joint-stock company that deals with road infrastructure and manages the network of state roads and motorways of national interest. Founded in 1946 with the name Azienda Nazionale Autonoma delle Strade (ANAS), this acronym became a proper name with the transformation first into a public economic body (1996) and subsequently into a joint-stock company (2002). Since January 2018, it has been part of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane corporate group. Legally, the company can be classified as a public law body; furthermore, within the European System of Accounts, it appears among the companies in the consolidated income statement of the Italian state.2

Corporate structure

ANAS is part of a group headed by Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane. 61 entities, 7 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What ANAS reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Founded by Government of Italy in 1928, in Rome.1

In Italian history there was attempts to delineate a network of National roads; the Law 1094 of the 17th May 1928 (Decreto del 17 maggio 1928) established the "Azienda Autonoma Statale delle Strade" (AASS) (Autonomous State Agency of the Roads) with the first 137 National Roads. In the years the Agency grow up and after the Ethiopic War it managed about 5000 km of roads. This Agency was merged into Ministry of public works.

Founded on 27 June 1946, the company took a government grant for the reconstruction of the Italian road network, which had been seriously damaged in World War II.

From Wikipedia’s article on Anas (company), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

Anas holds the concession to manage the national road network, as governed by Decreto Legislativo no. 461 of 29 October 1999 as amended by the D.P.C.M. of 21 September 2001 ("Modifications to the Prime Ministerial Decree of 21 February 2000 identifying and transferring, pursuant to Article 101, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree no. 112 of 1998, roads not included in the national motorway and road network") and other subsequent measures. The company manages and controls a network of 31,910 km of state roads, motorways, and spour route under direct management, including motorway interchanges and slip roads. The road network expanded between 2018 and 2021 as a result of the 'Rientro Strade' plan, which brought 6,500 km of former highway, regional and county road back under Anas management. The plan was launched in August 2017 with the agreement sanctioned by the Conferenza Unificata, which was followed by the Prime Ministerial Decree of 20 February 2018, while the second phase of the plan started in April 2021 in execution of the D.P.C.M. of 21 November 2019. Anas's roads are divided into regional compartments of competence, of which the Sicilian one has the most extensive road network with over 3,914 km.

From Wikipedia’s article on Anas (company), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Subsidiaries

Also owns

  • Ostiglia-Revere bridge

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Jan 2022Acquired Acquired by Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane1
  2. 1928Founded Founded in Rome1

Sources

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