All things you need to know about living in Samatzai
Samatzai, in the province of Cagliari, is home to 1 Brazilians: 0.07% of its 1,509 residents.
That is the 2555th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sardegna it ranks 50th.
That puts Samatzai in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
Samatzai qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Cagliari scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for medical specialists and burglaries reported.
It scores in the bottom quarter for PM10 Annual average concentration and road mortality in non-urban roads.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 33.7°C (93°F) and winters a low of 5.1°C (41°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Samatzai sees about 79 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 468mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 78 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Samatzai population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 7 | 0.46% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.07% |
| Germany | 1 | 0.07% |
| France | 1 | 0.07% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.07% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.07% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| Norway | 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 | 1,452 | 96.22% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 28 | 1.86% |
| Born outside the EU | 29 | 1.92% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Cagliari
Full BES profile for Cagliari →Cagliari on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Samatzai 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 Samatzai is far below the Cagliari average of €1,604/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
21.3 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
Samatzai 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: Nuova Casa di Cura S.R.L., about 26.2 km / 25 minutes by road from Samatzai (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Ospedaliero N.S. di Bonaria, San Gavino Monreale (DEA level I), about 34.2 km / 29 minutes by road from Samatzai (the main town).
Nearest airport: Cagliari Elmas Airport (CAG), about 31.5 km / 27 minutes by road from Samatzai (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermercato Fratelli Medda, about 5.9 km / 7 minutes by road from Samatzai (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Licheri Accalai srl, about 1.1 km / 2 minutes by road from Samatzai (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Barrali, about 7.7 km / 8 minutes by road from Samatzai (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 Samatzai, 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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