All things you need to know about living in Fai della Paganella
Fai della Paganella, in the province of Trento, is home to 2 Britons: 0.21% of its 937 residents.
ISTAT counts 50 residents with a foreign citizenship in Fai della Paganella, 5.34% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the only group is Britons (2).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Trento scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for nonprofit organizations and urban green.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 22.8°C (73°F) and winters a low of -5.7°C (22°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Fai della Paganella sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,386mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 172 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Fai della Paganella at about €2,125 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 33.7 years of renting the same property.
That is above most Italian comuni.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Britons in Fai della Paganella rose from 0 to 2.
ISTAT's census data puts 8.3% of Fai della Paganella's population as born outside Italy: 5.2% outside the EU and 3.1% 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.
Fai della Paganella population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 24 | 2.56% |
| Albania | 4 | 0.43% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 0.21% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.11% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.11% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 0.11% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 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% |
| 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% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 859 | 91.68% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 29 | 3.09% |
| Born outside the EU | 49 | 5.23% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Trento
Full BES profile for Trento →Trento on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Fai della Paganella is above the Trento average of €1,964/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
33.7 years of rent here equal the purchase price — well above 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 29% more than ordinary condition — €2,750/m² against €2,125.
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 €2,300/m², against €2,125 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 8% 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
Fai della Paganella 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: Presidio Ospedaliero di Cles, about 30.3 km / 25 minutes by road from Fai della Paganella (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Ospedaliero di Cles (Pronto Soccorso), about 30.3 km / 25 minutes by road from Fai della Paganella (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Presidio Ospedaliero S. Chiara, Trento (DEA level II), about 34.3 km / 27 minutes by road from Fai della Paganella (the main town).
Nearest airport: Bolzano Airport (BZO), about 55.5 km / 37 minutes by road from Fai della Paganella (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Fai della Paganella (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Catanzaro Maria Grazia S.R.L., about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Fai della Paganella (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Mezzolombardo, about 11.4 km / 9 minutes by road from Fai della Paganella (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 Fai della Paganella, 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.
Nearby comuni
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