All things you need to know about living in Saracena
Saracena, in the province of Cosenza, is home to 5 Russians: 0.15% of its 3,288 residents.
That is the 485th-highest concentration of Russians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Calabria it ranks 23rd.
ISTAT counts 123 residents with a foreign citizenship in Saracena, 3.74% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Russians (5), Brazilians (2), Venezuelans (2).
Saracena qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Cosenza scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported and PM10 Annual average concentration.
It scores in the bottom quarter for employment rate (20-64 years old) and life expectancy at birth.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 27.4°C (81°F) and winters a low of 1.5°C (35°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Saracena sees about 13 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 987mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 131 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Saracena at about €508 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Saracena population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 24 | 0.73% |
| Albania | 7 | 0.21% |
| Ukraine | 7 | 0.21% |
| Russia | 5 | 0.15% |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 0.09% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0.06% |
| Venezuela | 2 | 0.06% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.03% |
| Germany | 1 | 0.03% |
| Latvia | 1 | 0.03% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.03% |
| United States | 1 | 0.03% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 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% |
| 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% |
| Malta | 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% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 3,029 | 92.12% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 102 | 3.10% |
| Born outside the EU | 157 | 4.77% |
Russians over time
Quality of life in Cosenza
Full BES profile for Cosenza →Cosenza on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Saracena 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 Saracena is well below the Cosenza average of €795/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
23.5 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
Saracena is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
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 Civile Ferrari - Castrovillari, about 13.5 km / 16 minutes by road from Saracena (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Civile Ferrari - Castrovillari (DEA level I), about 13.5 km / 16 minutes by road from Saracena (the main town).
Nearest airport: Lamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia International Airport (SUF), about 132.5 km / 88 minutes by road from Saracena (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermarket, about 1.1 km / 1 minute by road from Saracena (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Perrone Raffaele, about 3.8 km / 6 minutes by road from Saracena (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): San Marco-Roggiano, about 33.5 km / 32 minutes by road from Saracena (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 Saracena, 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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