Free visura catastale with SPID: how to get one

Since 1 January 2025 the visura catastale, the official land registry record of a property, can be downloaded free of charge from the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) website, with SPID, CIE or CNS, even for properties you do not own. This applies to buildings and land, current or historical records, throughout Italy except the provinces of Trento and Bolzano. So if you are considering a house, you can check for yourself how it is registered in the land registry (catasto) before asking the seller for documents.

What the visura shows

The visura shows the cadastral identifiers, the registered holders with their shares, the category (for example A/2, standard home), the class, the size, the cadastral floor area and the cadastral income (rendita catastale); the historical visura also shows how these have changed over time and who the previous owners were.

The other checks each have their own document: a surveyor checks building compliance in the Comune's (local council's) archives, the notary checks mortgages and seizures in the property registers, and the drawing of the flat is the floor plan (see below).

What you need

• SPID, CIE or CNS to log in to the Revenue Agency's reserved area. SPID is Italy's public digital identity system, CIE is the electronic identity card and CNS the national services card.
• The property details: municipality (and section, if there is one), foglio (sheet), particella (parcel) and, for a flat, subalterno (unit number). Without the subalterno the service shows a list of the units on the parcel to choose from.

The foglio and particella are shown on the purchase deed (rogito), on the owner's tax return or on the cadastral map. The seller knows the subalterno.

A visura from the address

The Revenue Agency's service searches by cadastral identifiers, not by street and number. If all you have is the address, the first step is the sheet and parcel: our page find the sheet and parcel from an address gives them free, with the plot drawn on the map. With those two numbers you request the visura as explained below: without the subalterno the service lists the units on the parcel, with floor and category, and you pick the right one.

The steps

The Revenue Agency website is in Italian: the names in bold are the menu items you will see.

1. Log in to the reserved area of the Revenue Agency website with SPID, CIE or CNS.
2. From the Servizi (services) menu choose the Fabbricati e terreni (buildings and land) category, then Visure, planimetrie e ispezioni ipotecarie degli immobili (records, floor plans and mortgage searches).
3. In the section Visure catastali di immobili non di proprietà (records for properties you do not own) click Accedi (access).
4. Choose the provincial office for the property's municipality, then the search per immobile (by property): catasto fabbricati (buildings register) for a flat, catasto terreni (land register) for a plot of land.
5. Enter municipality, foglio, particella and subalterno and request the current or historical visura.
6. Download the PDF from Visure richieste (requested records).

Two limits to know: documents stay available to download for 10 days, and after more than 5 searches in a row without requesting a visura the service locks until midnight. So it is best to have the correct details before you start.

If you prefer to go in person, you can request the visura at a provincial office of the Revenue Agency: for a property you do not own it costs 3 euros.

Map of the parcel

The same service also lets you download the visura della mappa free of charge, an A4 PDF centred on the parcel showing the neighbouring plots. Without logging in, you can view the cadastral map on the Revenue Agency's cadastral map portal (Geoportale cartografico catastale).

The floor plan: ask the seller

The cadastral floor plan (planimetria catastale) is the drawing of the flat. The Revenue Agency only releases it to people with rights over the property as recorded in the land registry, to a person they authorise or to a professional they appoint: for a buyer, then, the way to get it is to ask the seller, who can download it free of charge from the reserved area with the service for their own properties. Comparing it room by room with the house is one of the checks listed in Questions to ask the seller before buying a house in Italy.

Mortgages and seizures: the mortgage register search

To find out whether there are mortgages (ipoteche) or seizures (pignoramenti) on the property you need a mortgage register search (ispezione ipotecaria) in the property registers. Owners can check their own properties free of charge; for other people's properties there is a fee (8 euros per name or property and 5 euros per entry, reduced by 20% online). The notary usually does this before the final deed.

Trento and Bolzano

In the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano the land registry is run by the Provinces and the tavolare land registry (catasto tavolare) applies: ownership and rights are recorded in the land book (libro fondiario). The two Provinces' online services are free only for your own properties; for other properties, ask the seller for an up-to-date extract or contact the Libro fondiario offices.

Frequently asked questions

Is the visura catastale online really free?

Yes. Since 1 January 2025 the visura catastale downloaded from the Revenue Agency website is free for everyone, current or historical, for your own property and for other people's. At a Revenue Agency office it costs 3 euros for a property you do not own.

Do I need SPID?

You need an Italian digital identity to enter the reserved area: SPID, the electronic identity card (CIE) or the national services card (CNS). Without one you can go to a provincial office of the Revenue Agency, or ask a geometra or an agency that handles paperwork (agenzia di pratiche) to get it for you.

Does the visura show who owns the house?

Yes: it lists the registered holders with the type of right and the share, for example full ownership of one half. After a recent sale, the change appears once the notary has filed the transfer (voltura).

Can I get a visura from the address alone?

The service asks for the sheet and parcel. From the address you find them free on the page find the sheet and parcel from an address, then pick the flat from the list of units on the parcel.

Sources

Pages accessed on 14 September 2026:

• Agenzia delle Entrate, online visura catastale and service costs.
• Agenzia delle Entrate, help pages: visure catastali di immobili non di proprietà.
• Agenzia delle Entrate, planimetria catastale and ispezione ipotecaria.
• D.Lgs. 18 settembre 2024, n. 139, article 7 and the table of fees for mortgage and land registry services.
• Provincia autonoma di Bolzano, land book search; Provincia autonoma di Trento, search of land book entries.