SU · Sardegna
The short version
Barumini is a village of about 1,100 people in Sardegna.
It has a shop, a pharmacy, a doctor, a bar and a restaurant.
We could measure 5 of the 9 things we look at in a village. We have nothing yet on the weather, internet, air quality and house prices, so those are left out of every score below rather than counted as zero.
42km
To the sea
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
45 min
drive to the nearest airport
Alghero-Fertilia Airport AHO · 121 km
Flies to Spain, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and 6 more.
10 countries in all.
Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport OLB · 141 km
Flies to Germany, France, Switzerland, the UK and 6 more.
10 countries in all.
Cagliari CAG · 49 km
Flies to Spain, the UK, Germany, Belgium and 5 more.
9 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
34 min
drive to the motorway (unnamed toll gate)
By rail
23 min
drive to the nearest 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.
Excellent
Daily needs in the village itself. Daily needs are covered inside the village
Fair
How reachable the outside world is. Reachable, with some planning
Thin
Is the population holding or draining away. The population is draining away
Fair
Signs of life: bars, places to eat, places to stay. A handful of places to eat and drink
Poor
Foreigners already living there. Few foreign residents already here
Is Barumini 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.
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
0.6% of Barumini
7
From northern and western Europe, or the anglosphere
0.1% of residents
1
Largest groups
Morocco
3
Romania
2
Belgium
1
India
1
Daily life
Counted inside the municipal boundary, from OpenStreetMap.
3
Groceries
3
Bars & cafés
4
Restaurants
1
Pharmacies
1
Doctors' surgeries
1
Banks & ATMs
1
Post offices
1
Petrol stations
2
Schools
2
Places to stay
8
Sports grounds
Not in the village: a coworking space. For those, you drive.
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 sea
Coast within reach
42 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
Skiing nearby
14 km away
Seggiovia di Sa Corona Arrubia. 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.
The honest part
The ages of everyone living here, from ISTAT, carried forward on births and deaths only.
Mean age
51.0
Over 65
31 %
Under 15
8 %
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.
Fair
Based on 65% 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 and house prices in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Fair
Based on 54% 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, house prices and internet in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Fair
Based on 51% 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 and house prices 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.
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Compare on one thing
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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OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap
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OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap
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