All things you need to know about living in Cittareale
Cittareale, in the province of Rieti, is home to 2 Brazilians: 0.53% of its 374 residents.
ISTAT counts 17 residents with a foreign citizenship in Cittareale, 4.55% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the two groups are Brazilians (2) and Americans (1).
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
Cittareale qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Rieti scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for urban green and nonprofit organizations.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and road mortality in non-urban roads.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 26.3°C (79°F) and winters a low of -1.1°C (30°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Cittareale sees about 8 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,103mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 153 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Brazilians in Cittareale rose from 0 to 2.
ISTAT's census data puts 6.7% of Cittareale's population as born outside Italy: 4.0% outside the EU and 2.7% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this by specific country at comune level, so it does not line up with the citizenship figures above.
Cittareale population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 8 | 2.14% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0.53% |
| Ukraine | 2 | 0.53% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.27% |
| United States | 1 | 0.27% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 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% |
| United Kingdom | 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% |
| Netherlands | 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% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 349 | 93.32% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 10 | 2.67% |
| Born outside the EU | 15 | 4.01% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Rieti
Full BES profile for Rieti →Rieti on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Cittareale qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime. Comfortably below the 30,000-resident ceiling.
Qualifying is about the town. Whether it applies to you depends on criteria no map can check — where you were tax-resident before, and where your income comes from.
How the 7% pensioner regime works, and every qualifying comune →Property prices
OMI records no market value for Cittareale. Agenzia delle Entrate surveys the town and returns a price of zero for every zone — which means there is no functioning residential market to price, not that property here is cheap.
Cittareale is one of sixteen comuni in this position. Fifteen are in the belt destroyed by the 2016 Central Italy earthquake; the sixteenth, Gibellina, was destroyed in 1968. We publish the absence rather than a zero, because a zero would rank the most devastated towns in Italy as its cheapest.
Seismic zone
Cittareale is in seismic zone 1. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 1 as the highest-hazard zone, where strong earthquakes are likely over the long run.
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.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: P.O.San Salvatore L'Aquila, about 52.9 km / 48 minutes by road from Cittareale (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Civile di Norcia (Pronto Soccorso), about 31.9 km / 32 minutes by road from Cittareale (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Polo Ospedaliero Unico Integrato, Rieti (DEA level I), about 52.1 km / 43 minutes by road from Cittareale (the main town).
Nearest airport: Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport (PEG), about 125.7 km / 100 minutes by road from Cittareale (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Alimentari, about 14.4 km / 13 minutes by road from Cittareale (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia L'Abbate Dr. Giovanni, about 16.1 km / 14 minutes by road from Cittareale (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Antrodoco Centro, about 28.9 km / 25 minutes by road from Cittareale (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 Cittareale, 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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