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Moving to Italy

Turin and Piedmont

The city we moved to, and the towns around it, by our own rules for choosing a place to live.

Towns
65 in our catalogue
Our rules
28 meet every one
Hospital
48 within 15 km
Fibre
32 with 70% of homes or more

We moved to Turin in 2026, after three years by the sea in Pietrasanta. Below is the city in our words, then every Piedmont town in our catalogue measured on the same rules we use in the Where to Move in Italy series: how big the town is, how far the nearest city is, the hospital, the fibre, the train and the earthquake zone.

Turin, from the letter

“But the best about it is a simple fact: it belongs to the locals.”
From Torino
“Torino is a city with all its might and services.”
From Torino
“Turin might be a bit of an overkill, as it has around 1M souls, but it is one of the most overlooked cities in Italy, with next to no mass tourism.”
From Where to Move in Italy, Part 3: The City
“live in an underrated Italian city that fully caters to locals, while having a small place by the sea where you can sometimes escape.”
From Torino

How we measure a town

A small town, for us, has 5,000 to 20,000 people: big enough to be a town, small enough to stay one community. It should have a city of 50,000 or a provincial capital 30 to 60 minutes away by car, near enough for the services and far enough to keep its own life. A village should have a town of 5,000 within 15 minutes for the shopping and a meal out. A station of its own is a bonus. The hospital is measured as the crow flies to the nearest comune with a national health service hospital; fibre is the share of homes full fibre reaches, from the regulator's map; the earthquake zone is the national classification, 1 the highest hazard and 4 the lowest.

Within an hour of Turin (11)

One to two hours from Turin (48)

Further out (6)

The paperwork

This guide is about where to live, not how to immigrate. For visas, tax and healthcare, go to the source.

  • Visas: The Foreign Ministry's own checker, in Italian: which visa, if any, your passport needs.
  • Residency: Registering at the anagrafe is done with the comune you move to; each has its own page.
  • Tax code and tax: The codice fiscale comes first, before a lease, a bank or a doctor.
  • Healthcare: The national health service. Our own explainer is linked below.
  • Healthcare in Italy, explained: our own guide to the national health service.

Where to Move in Italy

The series these rules come from

Part 1, The End of the Road · Part 2, The Small Town · Part 3, The City · Part 4, The Postcard · Part 5, The Other Half. The towns we would pick are in Part 6, The Best Towns.

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The 1,000 Italian towns most travelers skip.

We write letters from the Italian towns we visit: the town, what is worth eating there, and when to turn up. It is free, and you can leave whenever you like.

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