Euro banknotes are shared across the euro area. Italy gave every national coin denomination a different work, selected from architecture and art spanning the Middle Ages to Futurism.
Paper money
Euro notes follow an easy architectural colour ladder - grey €5, red €10, blue €20, orange €50, green €100 and yellow €200 - wherever you spend them in Europe.
The euro banknote theme is imagined European architecture rather than real monuments: windows and gateways move from classical to modern styles, while bridges on the reverse suggest connection. Cash by Country artwork is an original, simplified interpretation and is not legal tender.
The eight-room gallery
Architecture begins the sequence
The three copper-coloured coins travel from the octagonal Castel del Monte to Turin's Mole Antonelliana and Rome's Colosseum. They turn the smallest change into a three-city architecture tour.
The middle values move through art history
Botticelli's Venus occupies 10 cent, a dynamic sculpture by Futurist Umberto Boccioni occupies 20 cent, and the equestrian Marcus Aurelius on the Campidoglio occupies 50 cent.
Leonardo and Dante anchor the euros
Leonardo's study of ideal human proportions makes EUR 1 instantly recognisable. EUR 2 uses Raphael's portrait of Dante from the Vatican Palace, placing literature on the highest regular value.
Shared notes, local masterpieces
An Italian EUR 20 note is the same banknote used across the euro area. Use our original illustrations for denomination and colour, then check real notes by touch, watermark, security thread and hologram.