All things you need to know about living in Volturino
Volturino, in the province of Foggia, is home to 1 Brazilians: 0.07% of its 1,503 residents.
That is the 2547th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Puglia it ranks 29th.
ISTAT counts 71 residents with a foreign citizenship in Volturino, 4.72% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (1), Canadians (1), French nationals (1).
Volturino qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Foggia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for electricity from renewable sources and hospital beds in high-care wards.
It scores in the bottom quarter for average disposable income per capita 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 32.1°C (90°F) and winters a low of 1.8°C (35°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Volturino sees about 60 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 639mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 103 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Volturino at about €450 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Volturino population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 53 | 3.53% |
| Ukraine | 2 | 0.13% |
| Albania | 1 | 0.07% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.07% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.07% |
| France | 1 | 0.07% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.07% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.07% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,395 | 92.81% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 74 | 4.92% |
| Born outside the EU | 34 | 2.26% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Foggia
Full BES profile for Foggia →Foggia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Volturino 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 Volturino is far below the Foggia average of €996/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
22.1 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
Volturino 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: Casa di Cura Universo Salute - Don Uva, about 39.2 km / 33 minutes by road from Volturino (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: AOU OO RR Foggia - Ospedale di Lucera (Pronto Soccorso), about 26.2 km / 24 minutes by road from Volturino (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedali Riuniti di Foggia (DEA level II), about 41.7 km / 36 minutes by road from Volturino (the main town).
Nearest airport: Foggia Gino Lisa Airport (FOG), about 44.7 km / 39 minutes by road from Volturino (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Carrefour, about 16.1 km / 18 minutes by road from Volturino (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Farmacie Garruto S.R.L, about 6.7 km / 9 minutes by road from Volturino (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Lucera, about 23.2 km / 21 minutes by road from Volturino (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 Volturino, 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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