All things you need to know about living in Mezzana Bigli
Mezzana Bigli, in the province of Pavia, is home to 4 Portuguese nationals: 0.37% of its 1,068 residents.
That is the 6th-highest concentration of Portuguese nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Lombardia it ranks 6th.
ISTAT counts 46 residents with a foreign citizenship in Mezzana Bigli, 4.31% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Portuguese nationals (4), French nationals (3), Germans (1).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Pavia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported and intentional homicide rate.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 31.1°C (88°F) and winters a low of -0.1°C (32°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Mezzana Bigli sees about 54 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 795mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 102 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Mezzana Bigli at about €755 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
That is below most Italian comuni.
Mezzana Bigli population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 9 | 0.84% |
| Ukraine | 7 | 0.66% |
| Portugal | 4 | 0.37% |
| France | 3 | 0.28% |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 0.19% |
| Germany | 1 | 0.09% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.09% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 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% |
| 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 | 1,008 | 94.38% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 20 | 1.87% |
| Born outside the EU | 40 | 3.75% |
Portuguese nationals over time
Quality of life in Pavia
Full BES profile for Pavia →Pavia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Mezzana Bigli is well below the Pavia average of €1,069/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market. OMI records no rental figures here.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 16% more than ordinary condition — €875/m² against €755.
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 €810/m², against €755 for an apartment.
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
Mezzana Bigli 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: Casa di Cura Cittadella Sociale, about 4.9 km / 6 minutes by road from Mezzana Bigli (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale SS. Antonio e Margherita Torton, Tortona (Pronto Soccorso), about 26 km / 25 minutes by road from Mezzana Bigli (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale Civile - Voghera (DEA level I), about 24.7 km / 26 minutes by road from Mezzana Bigli (the main town).
Nearest airport: Milano Linate Airport (LIN), about 78.4 km / 54 minutes by road from Mezzana Bigli (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Gulliver, about 3.9 km / 4 minutes by road from Mezzana Bigli (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia San Giovanni di Dott. Valla Elena M.L., about 3.1 km / 4 minutes by road from Mezzana Bigli (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Sannazzaro de' Burgondi, about 8.8 km / 10 minutes by road from Mezzana Bigli (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 Mezzana Bigli, 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
- Cornale e Bastida
- Sannazzaro de' Burgondi
- Molino dei Torti
- Ferrera Erbognone
- Isola Sant'Antonio
- Alzano Scrivia
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