24 villages · 9 measured axes

Rural Italy

Searches for rural Italy have grown nearly ninefold in a year. Most of what they return is photography. This is the other thing: a measured read on villages small enough to be called rural and still awake enough to live in — services, access, vitality, climate, connectivity, air.

How this list is ordered

Weighted for whoever fits best

This list is not tuned to one kind of mover. Each village is ranked by its strongest persona score, so a place that suits a remote worker and a place that suits a retiree can both earn a high slot.

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. 2Cadrezzate con OsmateVA · Lombardia8866.7% covered
  3. 3MiglianicoCH · Abruzzo8877.8% covered
  4. 4PadruSS · Sardegna8766.7% covered
  5. 5PedasoFM · Marche8766.7% covered
  6. 6AltidonaFM · Marche8766.7% covered
  7. 7FermoFM · Marche8666.7% covered
  8. 8RoccamoricePE · Abruzzo8677.8% covered
  9. 9Porto San GiorgioFM · Marche8666.7% covered
  10. 10ViveroneBI · Piemonte8577.8% covered
  11. 11Città Sant'AngeloPE · Abruzzo8577.8% covered
  12. 12Torrevecchia TeatinaCH · Abruzzo8577.8% covered
  13. 13Varano de' MelegariPR · Emilia-Romagna8577.8% covered
  14. 14San Giovanni TeatinoCH · Abruzzo8577.8% covered
  15. 15PianopoliCZ · Calabria8577.8% covered
  16. 16BolognettaPA · Sicilia8477.8% covered
  17. 17Popoli TermePE · Abruzzo8477.8% covered
  18. 18Loreto AprutinoPE · Abruzzo8477.8% covered
  19. 19DrapiaVV · Calabria8477.8% covered
  20. 20AlannoPE · Abruzzo8477.8% covered
  21. 21Tizzano Val ParmaPR · Emilia-Romagna8477.8% covered
  22. 22CastrocieloFR · Lazio8377.8% covered
  23. 23ManoppelloPE · Abruzzo8377.8% covered
  24. 24PennePE · Abruzzo8377.8% covered
Regions represented:AbruzzoCalabriaEmilia-RomagnaLazioLombardiaMarchePiemonteSardegnaSicilia

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