24 villages · 9 measured axes

Retire in Italy

Retiring somewhere puts the weight on different things: a pharmacy and a doctor you can reach, a winter you can stand, air you can breathe, and neighbours who are still there. This list is ranked on exactly those axes, with the coverage behind every score shown next to it.

How this list is ordered

Weighted for the retiree / semi-retired

Wants a doctor nearby, a hospital that exists, sun, a house that costs less than the flat back home, and other foreigners to talk to.

  • Daily needs in the village itself20%
  • How reachable the outside world is18%
  • What property actually costs18%
  • Is the population holding or draining away10%
  • Foreigners already living there10%
  • Air quality against WHO guidelines10%
  • Signs of life: bars, places to eat, places to stay7%
  • Sun, winter, summer7%
  • Fibre reach and measured speed0%

A note on the data

Coverage is shown beside every score because they are not the same claim. A 89 built from eight measured axes is not the 89 you get from four. Where an axis has no trustworthy data it is dropped and the remaining weights are renormalised — never filled with a zero.

The villages

24 measured, ranked

The strongest 24 of 5664 ranked villages.

  1. 1Porto Sant'ElpidioFM · Marche8966.7% covered
  2. 2PadruSS · Sardegna8766.7% covered
  3. 3AltidonaFM · Marche8766.7% covered
  4. 4Cadrezzate con OsmateVA · Lombardia8766.7% covered
  5. 5Porto San GiorgioFM · Marche8666.7% covered
  6. 6FermoFM · Marche8666.7% covered
  7. 7ViveroneBI · Piemonte8577.8% covered
  8. 8RoccamoricePE · Abruzzo8477.8% covered
  9. 9MiglianicoCH · Abruzzo8477.8% covered
  10. 10PianopoliCZ · Calabria8477.8% covered
  11. 11BerchiddaSS · Sardegna8366.7% covered
  12. 12Città Sant'AngeloPE · Abruzzo8277.8% covered
  13. 13MaidaCZ · Calabria8277.8% covered
  14. 14PedasoFM · Marche8266.7% covered
  15. 15San Giovanni TeatinoCH · Abruzzo8277.8% covered
  16. 16MombaroccioPU · Marche8177.8% covered
  17. 17Torrevecchia TeatinaCH · Abruzzo8177.8% covered
  18. 18Loreto AprutinoPE · Abruzzo8177.8% covered
  19. 19CiternaPG · Umbria8177.8% covered
  20. 20ManoppelloPE · Abruzzo8177.8% covered
  21. 21PianellaPE · Abruzzo8177.8% covered
  22. 22PreceniccoUD · Friuli-Venezia Giulia8077.8% covered
  23. 23GuglionesiCB · Molise8077.8% covered
  24. 24PennePE · Abruzzo8077.8% covered
Regions represented:AbruzzoCalabriaFriuli-Venezia GiuliaLombardiaMarcheMolisePiemonteSardegnaUmbria

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