All things you need to know about living in Marcedusa
Marcedusa, in the province of Catanzaro, is home to 17 Romanians: 4.76% of its 357 residents.
ISTAT counts 20 residents with a foreign citizenship in Marcedusa, 5.60% of the population. Among the nationalities we track, the only group is Romanians (17).
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
Marcedusa qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Catanzaro scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for hospital beds in high-care wards and medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and employment rate (20-64 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 32.5°C (91°F) and winters a low of 6.4°C (44°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Marcedusa sees about 69 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 655mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 90 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Marcedusa at about €526 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 22.5 years of renting the same property.
Marcedusa population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 17 | 4.76% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 335 | 93.84% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 15 | 4.20% |
| Born outside the EU | 7 | 1.96% |
Romanians over time
Quality of life in Catanzaro
Full BES profile for Catanzaro →Catanzaro on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Marcedusa 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
Buying in Marcedusa is well below the Catanzaro average of €794/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
22.5 years of rent here equal the purchase price, close to 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.
Seismic zone
Marcedusa 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.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: Casa di Cura Madonna Dello Scoglio SRL, about 30.9 km / 34 minutes by road from Marcedusa (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Pugliese, Catanzaro (DEA level II), about 45.1 km / 46 minutes by road from Marcedusa (the main town).
Nearest airport: Crotone Sant'Anna Pythagoras Airport (CRV), about 36.2 km / 40 minutes by road from Marcedusa (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Coop, about 14.4 km / 18 minutes by road from Marcedusa (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Siciliani Maurizio, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Marcedusa (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Botricello, about 16.1 km / 19 minutes by road from Marcedusa (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 Marcedusa, 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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