All things you need to know about living in Pezzaze
Pezzaze, in the province of Brescia, is home to 3 Brazilians: 0.21% of its 1,419 residents.
That is the 453rd-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Lombardia it ranks 157th.
ISTAT counts 80 residents with a foreign citizenship in Pezzaze, 5.64% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the only group is Brazilians (3).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Brescia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for life expectancy at birth and hospital beds in high-care wards.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported and PM10 Annual average concentration.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 23.3°C (74°F) and winters a low of -4.8°C (23°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Pezzaze sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,571mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 191 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Pezzaze at about €845 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 24.7 years of renting the same property.
Pezzaze population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 11 | 0.78% |
| Brazil | 3 | 0.21% |
| Ukraine | 2 | 0.14% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,311 | 92.39% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 11 | 0.78% |
| Born outside the EU | 97 | 6.84% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Brescia
Full BES profile for Brescia →Brescia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Pezzaze is well below the Brescia average of €1,392/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
24.7 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 32% more than ordinary condition — €1,115/m² against €845.
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 €945/m², against €845 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 12% 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
Pezzaze 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: Presidio Ospedaliero Gardone V.T., about 16 km / 18 minutes by road from Pezzaze (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Ospedaliero Gardone V.T., Gardone Val Trompia (Pronto Soccorso), about 16 km / 18 minutes by road from Pezzaze (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Istituto Clinico S. Rocco S.P.a. - Ome (DEA level I), about 29.8 km / 34 minutes by road from Pezzaze (the main town).
Nearest airport: Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY), about 75 km / 57 minutes by road from Pezzaze (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Minimarket Bregoli, about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Pezzaze (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Pezzaze SRL, about 3.2 km / 4 minutes by road from Pezzaze (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Paderno Franciacorta, about 36 km / 35 minutes by road from Pezzaze (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 Pezzaze, 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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