Remote worker
Very good
Based on everything that matters to them
Needs bandwidth and an airport more than it needs a pharmacy. Will trade services for cheap space and a fast train.
AN · Marche
Cupramontana
- Residents
- 4,321
- Elevation
- 505 m
- Area
- 27.4 km²
- Also known as
- Massaccio
Photo Davide · CC BY-SA 2.0
The short version
Cupramontana keeps its back to the Apennines and its vines to the sun. It is the capital of Verdicchio — a working wine town on a ridge, with four churches, a hermitage in the woods and the Adriatic half an hour east.
It is not a film set. Mornings are deliveries and shutters; afternoons are quiet enough to hear the valley. The town keeps a pharmacy, a post office and a handful of bars — and, improbably for somewhere this small, a fibre connection faster than most city flats.
We could measure 9 of the 9 things we look at in a village.
292Mbps
Average download
Measured across 150 tests · 30 ms latency
27km
To the airport
Aeroporto "Raffaello Sanzio" di Ancona-Falconara (AOI)
114days
Clear skies a year
July averages 24.4°C
29km
To the sea
Rail station 4.7 km away
On the map
Where this actually is
The village in Italy, then in its region with the nearest others we have measured.
- San Paolo di Jesi5.3 km
- Maiolati Spontini5.6 km
- Monte Roberto5.8 km
- Staffolo6.1 km
- Castelbellino6.2 km
- Castelplanio6.8 km
Boundaries from ISTAT administrative limits via openpolis/geojson-italy, licensed CC BY 4.0, simplified for drawing. Position from Wikidata. Distances are straight-line.
Getting in and out
How you reach the rest of the world
Three ways out: the train, the motorway, the plane. Each one leads with how long it takes to reach it by car — ISTAT measures that for every comune in Italy — and then what it gets you once you are there.
By air
25 min
drive to the nearest airport
Pescara PSR · 142 km
Flies to the UK, Belgium, Germany, Romania and 5 more.
9 countries in all.
Perugia PEG · 63 km
Flies to the UK, Albania, Belgium, Malta and 3 more.
7 countries in all.
Ancona Falconara AOI · 27 km
Flies to Albania, Germany, the UK, Belgium and 2 more.
6 countries in all.
Countries with a scheduled route that carried real passengers in 2024, from Eurostat. Airlines add and drop routes; check before you book a life around one.
By road
36 min
drive to the motorway (unnamed toll gate)
By rail
20 min
drive to the nearest station (Castelplanio-Cupramontana)
Milan
direct from Pesaro
2 h 33 min
54 km to that station
Bari
direct from Civitanova Marche
3 h 32 min
51 km to that station
Fastest direct train in the published Trenitalia timetable — one train, no changes. A city missing from this list is one you can still reach, but only by changing. Italo is not in the open feed, so on Milan and Naples the real best may be quicker.
By sea
36 km
to Ancona, the nearest port with a scheduled crossing
Ancona 36 km
Sails to Patras, Split and Zadar.
Ancona 37 km
Sails to Patras, Split and Zadar.
Ancona 37 km
Sails to Patras, Split and Zadar.
Crossings as mapped in OpenStreetMap. Seasonal routes are listed the same as year-round ones, so check the operator before counting on a winter sailing.
How it scores
How this village does, point by point
Each line is one question, answered from measured data and rated from poor to excellent. A low mark does not mean a bad village. It means you would have to drive, or wait, or put up with something.
Shops and everyday needs
Excellent
Daily needs in the village itself. Groceries, pharmacies, a post office and a clinic inside the town — you can live a week here without starting the car
Getting anywhere else
Very good
How reachable the outside world is. The station sits down the hill and the motorway junction is closer still
Is the village emptying?
Fair
Is the population holding or draining away. The population is holding better than most hill towns its size, but it is not growing
Somewhere to eat or stay
Very good
Signs of life: bars, places to eat, places to stay. Enough bars and places to stay for an evening, not for a choice of them
The weather
Good
Sun, winter, summer. Hot, bright summers and a short frosty winter at this altitude
Internet
Excellent
Fibre reach and measured speed. Among the fastest connections we have measured in a village this small
The air you breathe
Good
Air quality against WHO guidelines. Clean by Italian standards, though fine particulates still cross the WHO line
Other foreigners here
Very good
Foreigners already living there. An established foreign community
What a house costs
Good
What property actually costs. Around the regional average
Is Cupramontana the right one, though?
It is one of 5,664 villages measured the same way. Answer six questions and we will rank every one of them against what you actually want.
What it costs
About EUR 760 a square metre
Agenzia delle Entrate OMI valuation bands for the second half of 2025. These are official valuation ranges, not asking prices, and the courts treat them as indications of broad magnitude rather than an appraisal.
Cupramontana against every village we have priced
cheaper than 48% of the villages we have priced
EUR 200EUR 3,000
Kernel density over 5440 comuni. The long right tail is the ski and coastal market; most villages sit in the dense cluster on the left.
OMI range for residential
median across 3 zone(s)
EUR 630 – EUR 890
Rent
same source, same zones
EUR 2.6 / m² a month
The monthly five
Five villages under EUR 500 a square metre
We hold an OMI valuation for 5,440 Italian villages. 915 of them come in under EUR 500 a square metre — about EUR 50,000 for a 100 m² house. Once a month we send five of them, measured exactly the way Cupramontana is on this page.
One email a month. No listings, no agents, nothing sold, one click unsubscribes.
Who else is here
The people already from somewhere else
Resident foreigners by citizenship, from ISTAT's 1 January 2025 count. Residents, not holiday-home owners — someone who registered with the town hall.
Foreign residents
9.4% of Cupramontana
409
From northern and western Europe, or the anglosphere
0.7% of residents
32
Largest groups
Romania
77
India
37
Pakistan
37
North Macedonia
30
Nigeria
27
China
22
A year here
What the calendar actually feels like
January averages 4.7°C and July 24.4°C.
37days
Above 30°C
31days
Of frost
114days
Clear days
The air
Measured against WHO guidelines
The line is the yearly limit the World Health Organization recommends staying under — not a line below which the air is safe. A bar that crosses it means the air here is above what the WHO advises.
PM2.5
9.4 µg/m³ · 1.88× guideline
Above the WHO annual guideline (marked)
PM10
13.2 µg/m³ · 0.88× guideline
Within the WHO annual guideline (marked)
NO₂
3.3 µg/m³ · 0.33× guideline
Within the WHO annual guideline (marked)
A note on the data
54 days a year exceed the WHO daily PM2.5 guideline. That is normal for central Italy and worth knowing anyway.
Daily life
What is actually in the village
Counted inside the municipal boundary, from OpenStreetMap.
5
Groceries
5
Bars & cafés
2
Restaurants
2
Pharmacies
2
Banks & ATMs
1
Post offices
4
Petrol stations
2
Schools
5
Places to stay
12
Sports grounds
Not in the village: a doctor, a coworking space. For those, you drive.
A note on the data
No doctor's surgery and no coworking space are mapped inside the comune. For both, you drive.
What there is to do
Living there, not just arriving
Not how you leave — what is within reach on a free day. Every distance here is a straight line, and in the Apennines the road is much longer.
The sea
Coast within reach
29 km away
Measured to open water against the coastline itself — which is not the same as a beach you can park at.
The nearest lift
Lifts within reach
33 km away
Fondo Valle. A lift or a marked downhill piste in OpenStreetMap. Small Apennine stations open and close with the snow.
Ski areas within reach
- Area Sciistica Ussita Frontignano8 lifts · 60 km
Named ski areas in OpenStreetMap, biggest first rather than nearest. Lift counts are aerialways mapped inside the area — drag lifts included, so a number in the single digits is a village station, not a resort.
A note on the data
No sagre yet. Italy has no national open dataset of village festivals — Lombardia publishes one, Abruzzo, Marche and Umbria do not, so for now the calendar of a 505 m village is something you have to ask the comune for.
The honest part
Who lives here, and for how much longer
Counting births and deaths only, the population would change by -19.5% over twenty years. It assumes nobody moves in or out, so treat it as the direction of travel rather than a prediction.
Mean age
48.3
Over 65
29 %
Under 15
11 %
A note on the data
Nearest facility tagged as a hospital is "Ambulatori" — that name suggests an outpatient clinic, not a hospital with an emergency room. Rather than trust it or zero it, we excluded hospital distance from this village's access score and reweighted the rest.
Who it fits
Three ways of wanting a village
The same village suits three people very differently, because they want different things from it. Where we are missing data that one of them cares about, we say so — a verdict built on less is worth less.
Retiree / semi-retired
Good
Based on everything that matters to them
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.
Cheap-house renovator
Good
Based on everything that matters to them
Chasing price per square metre. Tolerates isolation, but a village that is emptying fast is a house that will never resell.
Nearby
The next villages along
Closest first, measured in a straight line. They may be over a regional border — a border is not a distance.
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Compare on one thing
Every number on this page came from somewhere
20 sources · last refreshed 2026-07-31
AGCOM — ultra-broadband coverage by municipality
geo.agcom.it
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Agenzia Entrate - OMI
www.agenziaentrate.gov.it
2025-12-31
Eurostat air transport statistics, and OurAirports
ec.europa.eu
2024-12-31
ISTAT — municipal accessibility to transport infrastructure (2023)
www.istat.it
2022-12-31
ISTAT — resident population by citizenship
demo.istat.it
2025-01-01
ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per municipality)
demo.istat.it
2026
Italian Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
it.wikipedia.org
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Model: cohort-component, no migration. ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per municipality) 2026 + Italian life table 2024 + ITI3 fertility 2024 (TFR 1.11)
ec.europa.eu
2026+20y
Ookla Open Data, fixed broadband tiles (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
github.com
2026Q1
Open-Meteo air quality (CAMS European reanalysis)
open-meteo.com
2024
Open-Meteo ERA5 archive (2015-2024 daily reanalysis)
open-meteo.com
2015/2024
OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
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OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap
127.0.0.1
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OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap
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Trenitalia timetable via the Italian National Access Point (NeTEx)
www.cciss.it
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Wikidata (P1082/P2046/P2044, sourced from ISTAT)
www.wikidata.org
2017-01-01
Wikidata (P1082/P2046/P2044, sourced from ISTAT)
it.wikipedia.org
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Wikidata P18 / Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
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