All things you need to know about living in Fosdinovo
Fosdinovo, in the province of Massa-Carrara, is home to 12 Britons: 0.26% of its 4,592 residents.
That is the 232nd-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Toscana it ranks 50th.
ISTAT counts 256 residents with a foreign citizenship in Fosdinovo, 5.57% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (12), Russians (7), Spaniards (6).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Massa-Carrara scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for road mortality in non-urban roads and people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old).
It scores in the bottom quarter for hospital beds in high-care wards.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 26.7°C (80°F) and winters a low of 5.0°C (41°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Fosdinovo sees about 6 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,450mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 145 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Fosdinovo at about €1,269 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 15.3 years of renting the same property.
Fosdinovo population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 85 | 1.85% |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 0.26% |
| Ukraine | 11 | 0.24% |
| Albania | 10 | 0.22% |
| Russia | 7 | 0.15% |
| Spain | 6 | 0.13% |
| Switzerland | 4 | 0.09% |
| Brazil | 3 | 0.07% |
| Germany | 3 | 0.07% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 0.07% |
| Poland | 3 | 0.07% |
| France | 2 | 0.04% |
| Hungary | 2 | 0.04% |
| South Korea | 2 | 0.04% |
| Slovakia | 2 | 0.04% |
| United States | 2 | 0.04% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.02% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.02% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.02% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 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% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 4,191 | 91.27% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 145 | 3.16% |
| Born outside the EU | 256 | 5.57% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Massa-Carrara
Full BES profile for Massa-Carrara →Massa-Carrara on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Fosdinovo is below the Massa-Carrara average of €1,514/m². Averaged across 4 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
15.3 years of rent here equal the purchase price — well 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.
A detached house here averages €1,300/m², against €1,269 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 24% 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
Fosdinovo is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
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: Stabilimento San Bartolomeo di Sarzana, about 13.7 km / 16 minutes by road from Fosdinovo (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Stabilimento San Bartolomeo di Sarzana (Pronto Soccorso), about 13.7 km / 16 minutes by road from Fosdinovo (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Presidio Ospedaliero Zona delle Apuane, Carrara (DEA level I), about 16.7 km / 18 minutes by road from Fosdinovo (the main town).
Nearest airport: Pisa International Airport (PSA), about 80.1 km / 51 minutes by road from Fosdinovo (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Alimentari Il Borgo, about 0.1 km / 1 minute by road from Fosdinovo (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Del Borgo Di Farmacia Nuova S.r.l., about 2 km / 2 minutes by road from Fosdinovo (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Fivizzano-Rometta-Soliera, about 12.7 km / 12 minutes by road from Fosdinovo (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 Fosdinovo, 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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