Italian police have found Raffaele Sollecito near the Austrian border after a court reinstated his guilty verdict for the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher in 2007.
Sollecito's passport was confiscated but his lawyer said his client had never thought of fleeing.
Sollecito was given 25 years and his US ex-girlfriend Amanda Knox 28 years and six months in Thursday's ruling.
The Kercher family lawyer said that justice had been done.
Miss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon in south London, was stabbed to death in the flat she shared with Knox in the college city of Perugia.
'Flight danger'The travel ban was part of the verdict handed down on Sollecito by the court in Florence on Thursday.
- 1 Nov 07: Meredith Kercher found murdered in her shared flat in Perugia
- 28 Oct 08: Rudy Guede jailed after being found guilty of murder
- 4 Dec 09: Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito jailed after being found guilty of murder and sexual violence
- 3 Oct 11: Knox and Sollecito acquitted on appeal
- 26 March 13: Italy's top court overturns acquittals and severely criticises the appeal hearing
- 30 Sept 13: Re-trial of Knox and Sollecito. Guilty verdict returned on 31 January 2014
The court noted that there was a "real and actual the danger that Sollecito could escape Italian justice".
Sollecito is free to move within Italy until the verdict is confirmed, normally the task of the supreme Court of Cassation.
Lawyers for both Knox, who is in the United States, and Sollecito have said they will appeal to the Court of Cassation.
Sollecito had been in the courtroom in Florence earlier in the day on Thursday but was not there for the ruling.
His lawyer, Luca Maori, said his client had heard the verdict on TV and looked "annihilated".
Police reportedly found Sollecito with his girlfriend in a hotel in Venzone, about 40km (24 miles) from the border, in the early hours of Friday.
Venzone is 322km from Florence.
A police statement read: "Raffaele Sollecito... was notified of the cautionary measures of the travel ban and the confiscation of his passport."
He was taken voluntarily to a police station in Udine.
Mr Maori told the Ansa news agency that his client had "never thought of fleeing and had given up his passport spontaneously".
Mr Maori said his client was "stressed" on Thursday and had travelled to the Friuli area because his girlfriend lived there.
Ansa reported that investigators were considering whether Sollecito had shown the intention of fleeing, and if so could keep him in protective custody.
'Frightened'Knox and Sollecito were jailed for Miss Kercher's murder in 2009 but the verdicts were overturned in 2011 and the pair were freed.
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Speaking before the verdicts emerged, Amanda Knox said she was "a marked person"
However, the acquittals were themselves overturned last year by the Court of Cassation, which returned the case to the Florence court.
The court on Thursday made no requests for limits on Knox's movements.
Legal experts say it is unlikely Italy will request Knox's extradition until the verdict is confirmed.
They say that if Italy puts in a request, the US would have to decide whether the case fell under their mutual extradition treaty. Political considerations could also come into play, they say.
In a statement issued after the verdict, Knox said: "I am frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict.
"Having been found innocent before, I expected better from the Italian justice system."
In a news conference on Friday, Miss Kercher's brother, Lyle, said he believed extradition would be appropriate "if someone has been found guilty and convicted of a murder, and if an extradition law exists between those two countries".
Meredith's sister, Stephanie, said: "I think we are still on a journey for the truth and it may be the fact that we don't ever really know what happened that night."
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