All things you need to know about living in Marsicovetere
Marsicovetere, in the province of Potenza, is home to 24 Argentinians: 0.42% of its 5,678 residents.
That is the 69th-highest concentration of Argentinians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Basilicata it ranks 10th.
ISTAT counts 255 residents with a foreign citizenship in Marsicovetere, 4.49% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Argentinians (24), Brazilians (5), French nationals (4).
Marsicovetere qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Potenza scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for urban green and electricity from renewable sources.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and average disposable income per capita.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 27.9°C (82°F) and winters a low of 0.1°C (32°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Marsicovetere sees about 19 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 917mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 129 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Marsicovetere at about €544 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Marsicovetere population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 111 | 1.95% |
| Argentina | 24 | 0.42% |
| Ukraine | 7 | 0.12% |
| Albania | 5 | 0.09% |
| Brazil | 5 | 0.09% |
| France | 4 | 0.07% |
| Australia | 3 | 0.05% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 0.04% |
| Croatia | 2 | 0.04% |
| Venezuela | 2 | 0.04% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.02% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.02% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.02% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 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% |
| 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% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 5,160 | 90.88% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 137 | 2.41% |
| Born outside the EU | 381 | 6.71% |
Argentinians over time
Quality of life in Potenza
Full BES profile for Potenza →Potenza on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Marsicovetere 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 Marsicovetere is below the Potenza average of €665/m². Averaged across 4 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
26.2 years of rent here equal the purchase price — 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 43% more than ordinary condition — €778/m² against €544.
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 €930/m², against €544 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 2% 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
Marsicovetere is in seismic zone 1 (the Region labels it 1a). 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: Osp S.Pio da Pietrelcina di Villa D'Agri, about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Marsicovetere (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Osp S.Pio da Pietrelcina di Villa D'Agri, Marsicovetere (Pronto Soccorso), about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Marsicovetere (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): P. O. Luigi Curto- Polla (DEA level I), about 50.7 km / 45 minutes by road from Marsicovetere (the main town).
Nearest airport: Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport (QSR), about 107.2 km / 71 minutes by road from Marsicovetere (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad, about 7.6 km / 9 minutes by road from Marsicovetere (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Varuolo di Varuolo Agnese, about 0.7 km / 1 minute by road from Marsicovetere (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Atena Lucana, about 41.9 km / 39 minutes by road from Marsicovetere (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 Marsicovetere, 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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