All things you need to know about living in Torre Pallavicina
Torre Pallavicina, in the province of Bergamo, is home to 12 Romanians: 1.04% of its 1,155 residents.
That is the 3537th-highest concentration of Romanians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Lombardia it ranks 748th.
ISTAT counts 182 residents with a foreign citizenship in Torre Pallavicina, 15.76% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we track are Romanians (12), Albanians (8), Ukrainians (3).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Bergamo scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for road mortality in non-urban roads.
It scores in the bottom quarter for medical specialists and people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old).
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 29.5°C (85°F) and winters a low of -0.2°C (32°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Torre Pallavicina sees about 32 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,160mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 117 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Torre Pallavicina at about €925 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Torre Pallavicina population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 12 | 1.04% |
| Albania | 8 | 0.69% |
| Ukraine | 3 | 0.26% |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 0.17% |
| 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% |
| 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 | 950 | 82.25% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 16 | 1.39% |
| Born outside the EU | 189 | 16.36% |
Romanians over time
Quality of life in Bergamo
Full BES profile for Bergamo →Bergamo on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Torre Pallavicina is well below the Bergamo average of €1,298/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
18.1 years of rent here equal the purchase price — below 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 €1,050/m², against €925 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 14% 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
Torre Pallavicina 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.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: Presidio Ospedaliero di Chiari, about 16.3 km / 18 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Ospedaliero di Chiari (DEA level I), about 16.3 km / 18 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY), about 39.5 km / 37 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Italmark, about 6.9 km / 7 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Pumenengo Mazzini Matteo, about 5.4 km / 6 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Cividate al Piano - Calcio, about 13.1 km / 16 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
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 Torre Pallavicina, 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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