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Where to Live and Retire in Italy Now
Italy has never offered more pathways for Americans who want to live there, from the Digital Nomad Visa to a 7% flat tax on foreign pension income available in southern Italy and parts of central Italy. Three experts with decades of experience share their essential advice on where to live and retire, renting versus buying, renovation costs and how to find the best fit for your lifestyle. Throughout this issue, there are QR codes to access 20 long video podcast interviews to soak up absolutely every detail from our experts and expats.
Live and Retire in Milan
Italy’s economic engine and most international city, Milan offers expats career opportunities, a surprisingly warm community and world-class culture within easy reach of the Alps and the Lakes. You will learn why three Americans, including a young family and a same-sex couple, chose Milan over every other city in Italy. They will tell you exactly how they found their apartments, built their social lives and made Milan home.
Live and Retire in Turin
Baroque elegance meets Alpine enchantment in Turin, where a thriving food and wine culture and a cost of living roughly 30% less than Milan attract a new wave of Americans. You will hear from a digital nomad who arrived six months ago and a Dallas woman who married an Italian and has been raising her family there for 17 years.
Live and Retire in Bologna
Italy’s happiest city sits at the center of everything, with the world’s oldest university, UNESCO-recognized porticoes, legendary food and fast trains to Florence, Milan and Venice all within 90 minutes. You will hear from a Lonely Planet author raising a bilingual son there and a woman who built her own fashion business from scratch over 25 years. Learn what it takes to make Bologna your home.
Live and Retire in Parma
Your taste buds have not experienced anything like eating in Parma, and this refined small city keeps almost everything within walking distance. You will learn why a recently retired American couple from New Jersey found it to be the perfect part-time Italian home and why a podcaster who married a local says life here is unlike anywhere else.
Live and Retire in Salerno
An underrated southern city with an affordable cost of living, Salerno offers a walkable waterfront and instant access to the Amalfi Coast, Paestum and Naples. You will hear from a woman from New Jersey who reconnected with her Italian heritage there and a former Major League Baseball umpire who moved permanently with his husband. They will tell you why Salerno delivers a genuine slice of southern Italian life for an affordable cost of living.
Live and Retire in Puglia
Italy’s heel captures expats with extraordinary beaches on two seas, a farm-to-table food culture that is anything but a buzzword and Baroque architecture that rewards those willing to slow down and stay. You will hear from a New Jersey woman renovating a stone structure near Lecce and a former CNN commentator who bought six acres of ancient olive trees near Ostuni.
Live and Retire in Molise
Italy’s most undiscovered region offers the lowest property prices in Italy, living traditions unchanged for centuries and a genuine immersion small town Italy community. You will learn why two Americans from New Jersey sold everything and moved to a hilltop town where one of them has family roots going back five generations.
Live and Retire in Salemi, Sicily
A sun-drenched hilltop town in western Sicily, Salemi sits where ancient history meets a growing international community and property prices that rank among the lowest in Europe. You will hear from an American woman who bought her house for 24,000€ and went viral on TikTok and a British renovation expert with nearly 20 years in Sicily. They will tell you what you need to know if you want to buy a home in Sicily.
Live and Retire in Sardinia
A wild, ancient island, Sardinia is where Blue Zone living meets some of the Mediterranean’s most stunning beaches and a fiercely proud culture that rewards those who embrace it fully. You will hear from a young mother who transformed an abandoned villa into a boutique hotel, a Swiss-American man nearing retirement who bought a cottage one street from the beach and a native Sardinian relocation expert who can guide you around real estate on the island.
Dream Day: The Alfa Romeo Museum
Love Italian cars? If you’re anywhere near Milan you might want to make a day trip to the expansive Museo Alfa Romeo plus we share a special service to get you there, especially if you are traveling from one northern Italian destination to another.
Recipe: The Spritz Bianco
Perfect for spring and simmer, the Spritz Bianco is a Venetian-style spritz, crisper than its Aperol orange cousin and built with white bitter liqueur and sparkling wine.
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