All things you need to know about living in Francavilla Angitola

Francavilla Angitola, in the province of Vibo Valentia, is home to 45 Bulgarians: 2.53% of its 1,780 residents.

That is the 11th-highest concentration of Bulgarians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.

Within Calabria it ranks 4th.

ISTAT counts 94 residents with a foreign citizenship in Francavilla Angitola, 5.28% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (2), Argentinians (1), Germans (1).

Francavilla Angitola qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.

On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Vibo Valentia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported.

It scores in the bottom quarter for medical specialists and 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 28.6°C (83°F) and winters a low of 7.3°C (45°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.

Francavilla Angitola sees about 22 days a year above 30°C (86°F).

It gets about 923mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 126 days.

These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.

Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Bulgarians in Francavilla Angitola rose from 28 to 45.