All things you need to know about living in Castione della Presolana
Castione della Presolana, in the province of Bergamo, is home to 2 Britons: 0.06% of its 3,345 residents.
That is the 1265th-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Lombardia it ranks 187th.
ISTAT counts 144 residents with a foreign citizenship in Castione della Presolana, 4.30% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (2), Brazilians (1), Swiss nationals (1).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Bergamo scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for road mortality in non-urban roads.
It scores in the bottom quarter for medical specialists and people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old).
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 22.2°C (72°F) and winters a low of -6.9°C (20°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Castione della Presolana sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,887mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 195 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Castione della Presolana at about €1,285 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 18.1 years of renting the same property.
Castione della Presolana population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 18 | 0.54% |
| Ukraine | 5 | 0.15% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 0.06% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.03% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.03% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.03% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.03% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Poland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 3,072 | 91.84% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 64 | 1.91% |
| Born outside the EU | 209 | 6.25% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Bergamo
Full BES profile for Bergamo →Bergamo on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
About the Bergamo average of €1,298/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
18.1 years of rent here equal the purchase price — below 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 18% more than ordinary condition — €1,512/m² against €1,285.
That gap is what the market charges for a place you don’t have to work on. It is not what the work would cost you — OMI prices property, not builders.
A detached house here averages €1,713/m², against €1,285 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 20% 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
Castione della Presolana 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 M. O. Antonio Locatelli-Piario, about 12.7 km / 12 minutes by road from Castione della Presolana (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale M. O. Antonio Locatelli-Piario (Pronto Soccorso), about 12.7 km / 12 minutes by road from Castione della Presolana (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale Valcamonica - Esine (DEA level I), about 38.7 km / 33 minutes by road from Castione della Presolana (the main town).
Nearest airport: Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY), about 49.5 km / 43 minutes by road from Castione della Presolana (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Thomas Market, about 2.4 km / 3 minutes by road from Castione della Presolana (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia S. Alessandro di Personeni Stefano & C. Snc, about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Castione della Presolana (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Darfo-Corna, about 31.1 km / 26 minutes by road from Castione della Presolana (the main town).
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 Castione della Presolana, 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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