All things you need to know about living in Barberino Tavarnelle
Barberino Tavarnelle, in the province of Firenze, is home to 32 Britons: 0.27% of its 11,977 residents.
That is the 226th-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Toscana it ranks 49th.
ISTAT counts 1,121 residents with a foreign citizenship in Barberino Tavarnelle, 9.36% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (32), Germans (31), French nationals (19).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Firenze scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for employment rate (20-64 years old) and life expectancy at birth.
It scores in the bottom quarter for electricity from renewable sources and burglaries reported.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 29.9°C (86°F) and winters a low of 1.0°C (34°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Barberino Tavarnelle sees about 36 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 936mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 116 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Barberino Tavarnelle at about €1,600 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Barberino Tavarnelle population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 233 | 1.95% |
| Albania | 207 | 1.73% |
| United Kingdom | 32 | 0.27% |
| Germany | 31 | 0.26% |
| Ukraine | 26 | 0.22% |
| France | 19 | 0.16% |
| Poland | 19 | 0.16% |
| Bulgaria | 16 | 0.13% |
| Brazil | 14 | 0.12% |
| Netherlands | 13 | 0.11% |
| Russia | 13 | 0.11% |
| Spain | 11 | 0.09% |
| Switzerland | 9 | 0.08% |
| United States | 6 | 0.05% |
| Denmark | 4 | 0.03% |
| Portugal | 4 | 0.03% |
| Australia | 2 | 0.02% |
| Belgium | 2 | 0.02% |
| Greece | 2 | 0.02% |
| Hungary | 2 | 0.02% |
| Ireland | 2 | 0.02% |
| Japan | 2 | 0.02% |
| South Korea | 2 | 0.02% |
| Latvia | 2 | 0.02% |
| Sweden | 2 | 0.02% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.01% |
| Norway | 1 | 0.01% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 10,479 | 87.49% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 392 | 3.27% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,106 | 9.23% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Firenze
Full BES profile for Firenze →Firenze on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Barberino Tavarnelle is well below the Firenze average of €2,236/m². Averaged across 6 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
24.5 years of rent here equal the purchase price, close to the national median of 22.2 years.
A ratio between two OMI prices, not a return on investment. It leaves out purchase taxes, IMU, maintenance, financing and the months a place sits empty — all of which push the real figure up. Useful for the question it does answer: whether this town looks expensive to buy relative to what renting in it costs.
A detached house here averages €2,185/m², against €1,600 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 35% more per square meter.
OMI prices “Ville e Villini” separately from the apartments every other figure on this page describes. Nationally a house costs about 14% more per square meter, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.
Seismic zone
Barberino Tavarnelle is in seismic zone 3. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 3 as a zone where strong earthquakes are less likely than in zones 1 and 2.
This is the legal classification the Region gave the comune, used for planning and for control of building works. It is not a forecast, and it says nothing about the building you are looking at: since the 2018 building code the design load of a new building comes from site-specific hazard, not from the zone. Have any specific property checked by a qualified engineer.
Not to be confused with the “seismic” routes of the 7% pensioner regime. Those turn on whether the comune was in the 2009 L’Aquila or 2016–17 central-Italy earthquake areas, not on its zone, and being in zone 1 does not make anyone eligible for that regime, or for any tax treatment.
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Nearest hospital: Ospedale Dell'Alta Val D'Elsa, about 16.3 km / 19 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Dell'Alta Val D'Elsa, Poggibonsi (Pronto Soccorso), about 16.3 km / 19 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Osp. S. Giovanni di Dio Torregalli, Firenze (DEA level I), about 30 km / 28 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Florence Airport, Peretola (FLR), about 46.1 km / 38 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Coop, about 4.3 km / 6 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Internazionale Snc di Ciro Cozzolino e C., about 4.2 km / 6 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Poggibonsi-San Gimignano, about 14.5 km / 17 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Measured by road from the main town of the comune (its OpenStreetMap place point; the geographic center for the few comuni with none), at free-flow speeds with no traffic. It is approximate. For Barberino Tavarnelle, a trip from your own address can take longer or shorter. Drive the route before you rely on it, and ask the local health authority which hospital serves the town. Shops, pharmacies and stations are the nearest to the main town, not to your address.
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