VB · Piemonte
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The short version
Bee is a village of about 800 people in the hills at 591 m in Piemonte.
We could measure 4 of the 9 things we look at in a village. We have nothing yet on shops and services, places to eat and stay, the weather, internet speed and air quality, so those are left out of every score below rather than counted as zero.
A note on the data
No headline measurements are available for this village yet.
On the map
The village in Italy, then in its region with the nearest others we have measured.
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
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
1 h 8 min
drive to the nearest airport
Milan Malpensa MXP · 39 km
Flies to Spain, the UK, France, the USA and 43 more.
47 countries in all.
Bergamo Orio al Serio BGY · 93 km
Flies to Spain, Romania, Poland, the UK and 26 more.
30 countries in all.
Turin TRN · 112 km
Flies to Spain, the UK, Germany, France and 14 more.
18 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
26 min
drive to the motorway
We have not routed the drive to the big cities from here yet.
By rail
30 min
drive to the nearest station
Milan
direct from Novara
40 min
57 km to that station
Naples
direct from Novara
11 h 4 min
57 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.
How it scores
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.
Thin
How reachable the outside world is. Remote — the outside world is a commitment
Excellent
Is the population holding or draining away. Holding its population better than its neighbours
Excellent
Foreigners already living there. An established foreign community
Poor
What property actually costs. Expensive for the area
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What it costs
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.
Bee against every village we have priced
cheaper than 7% of the villages we have priced
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 1 zone(s)
EUR 1,250 – EUR 1,800
Rent
same source, same zones
EUR 5.1 / m² a month
Who else is here
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
9.2% of Bee
70
From northern and western Europe, or the anglosphere
3.3% of residents
25
Largest groups
Switzerland
7
Ecuador
5
France
5
Romania
5
Russia
5
Ukraine
5
What there is to do
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 nearest lift
Skiing nearby
7.1 km away
Funivie del Lago Maggiore. A lift or a marked downhill piste in OpenStreetMap. Small Apennine stations open and close with the snow.
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 591 m village is something you have to ask the comune for.
The honest part
The ages of everyone living here, from ISTAT, carried forward on births and deaths only.
Mean age
48.3
Over 65
26 %
Under 15
10 %
A note on the data
No Speedtest samples within 3 km, so there is no measured internet speed for this village. That absence is itself a signal about how many people are online here.
Who it fits
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.
Thin
Based on 46% of what matters to them
Needs bandwidth and an airport more than it needs a pharmacy. Will trade services for cheap space and a fast train.
We have not measured air quality, the weather, internet speed, places to eat and stay and shops and services in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Thin
Based on 56% of what 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.
We have not measured air quality, the weather, places to eat and stay and shops and services in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Poor
Based on 69% of what matters to them
Chasing price per square metre. Tolerates isolation, but a village that is emptying fast is a house that will never resell.
We have not measured air quality, the weather, places to eat and stay and shops and services in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Nearby
Closest first, measured in a straight line. They may be over a regional border — a border is not a distance.
There are 5666 villages measured so far. Get told when we add ones like this, or search all of them.
Compare on one thing
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
OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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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 P18 / Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
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Field-by-field definitions and caveats live in the data dictionary.
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