All things you need to know about living in Presicce-Acquarica
Presicce-Acquarica, in the province of Lecce, is home to 7 Swiss nationals: 0.08% of its 9,180 residents.
That is the 378th-highest concentration of Swiss nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Puglia it ranks 10th.
ISTAT counts 284 residents with a foreign citizenship in Presicce-Acquarica, 3.09% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Swiss nationals (7), Germans (5), Belgians (3).
Presicce-Acquarica qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Lecce scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for intentional homicide rate and hospital beds in high-care wards.
It scores in the bottom quarter for urban green and overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 29.6°C (85°F) and winters a low of 9.3°C (49°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Presicce-Acquarica sees about 28 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 649mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 83 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Presicce-Acquarica at about €498 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Presicce-Acquarica population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 63 | 0.69% |
| Albania | 30 | 0.33% |
| Bulgaria | 24 | 0.26% |
| Switzerland | 7 | 0.08% |
| Germany | 5 | 0.05% |
| Ukraine | 4 | 0.04% |
| Belgium | 3 | 0.03% |
| Brazil | 3 | 0.03% |
| France | 3 | 0.03% |
| Spain | 2 | 0.02% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.02% |
| Venezuela | 2 | 0.02% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.01% |
| Malta | 1 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Poland | 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 | 8,027 | 87.44% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 212 | 2.31% |
| Born outside the EU | 941 | 10.25% |
Swiss nationals over time
Quality of life in Lecce
Full BES profile for Lecce →Lecce on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Presicce-Acquarica 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 Presicce-Acquarica is well below the Lecce average of €739/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
22.4 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.
A detached house here averages €670/m², against €498 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 43% 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
Presicce-Acquarica is in seismic zone 4. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 4 as the lowest-hazard zone, where a strong earthquake is very unlikely.
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: Ospedale Regionale Ee 'G. Panico', about 12.7 km / 15 minutes by road from Presicce (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Regionale Ee 'G. Panico', Tricase (DEA level I), about 12.7 km / 15 minutes by road from Presicce (the main town).
Nearest airport: Brindisi Airport (BDS), about 115.2 km / 83 minutes by road from Presicce (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Di Meglio, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Presicce (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Resci Snc del Dr.Resci P.& F., about 9.8 km / 8 minutes by road from Presicce (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Presicce-Acquarica, about 0.9 km / 1 minute by road from Presicce (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 Presicce-Acquarica, 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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