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Alassio: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Savona, Liguria. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.

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The report looks at the exact point: landslide and flood risk, seismic zone, price per square metre for the area, services and nearby stops.

For example: Corso Dante Alighieri 2, Alassio.

Alassio, a sandy bay on the Riviera and the hills behind

Alassio is one of the best-known resorts on the western Italian Riviera, facing a bay of fine sand with Gallinara island offshore towards Albenga. The town is a narrow strip between the sea and the hills. Its main street, the budello, runs parallel to the beach, and just above it stands the Muretto, a wall decorated with tiles signed by the famous people who have visited.

Tourism shapes the property market. Many homes are second homes, lived in during the summer and shut in winter, and there is a huge number of bars and restaurants: 18.61 per 1,000 residents, against 9.81 in the province. If you want a flat to live in all year, find out how many units in the building are occupied out of season, what the service charges are and how the neighbourhood feels in winter. On the hills behind the town there are villas and larger houses, often reached by narrow, steep roads. The Genoa to Ventimiglia railway has a station in town.

Alassio is losing residents: 10,051 in 2023, down 8.8% on 2011 according to Istat, the national statistics office. The population is old, with an estimated average age of 50.9 and over-65s at 30.9%, and households are very small, 1.83 people on average. Foreign residents make up 10.4%. Declared incomes are above the Savona average.

Western Liguria is more exposed to earthquakes than the rest of the region. Alassio is in seismic zone 2 of the Civil Protection classification, like only 4 municipalities in the province, with expected acceleration of about 0.138 g. Many buildings in the centre are old, so ask about structural checks and work carried out.

Short streams running down from the hills and steep slopes make an address-level check worthwhile. The report looks at landslide and flood maps and, with the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) cadastral maps, finds the plot.

Key points

  • Western Riviera resort with a sandy bay and Gallinara island offshore.
  • 18.61 bars and restaurants per 1,000 residents.
  • Over-65s at 30.9%; population down 8.8% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 2, like 4 municipalities in the province.

Overview

Alassio is a municipality in the province of Savona, in Liguria. At the end of 2023 it had 10,051 residents, among the most populous in the province (7 of 69).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Alassio is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Only 4 of 69 municipalities in the province are in zone 2.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.138 g, a moderate value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Alassio, the building matters a great deal: ask for the design year, whether it met the 2008 seismic standards, and whether any seismic retrofit has been carried out.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 8.8%. The estimated average age is 51 years, in line with the province. 31% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 29%). Foreign residents make up 10.4% of the population. On average, a household has 1.8 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Alassio declared an average taxable income of 26,186 euros, above the provincial average (24,469 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Alassio is in climate zone C, with 1,206 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 15 November to 31 March, for up to 10 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 6 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Alassio has 12 schools and 3 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 8 grocery shops and supermarkets, 6 healthcare facilities, 29 sports facilities and 4 parks and green areas.

There are 0.3 pharmacies per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.5).

Public transport

We do not yet have open public transport timetables for this municipality: the report says so explicitly, without inventing distances.

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 16.7% of the land in Alassio, compared with 6.7% in the province and 7.3% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Alassio is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Liguria in 2026. According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is low. Radon varies from building to building and can only be known by measuring it, especially on ground floors and in basements.

Official databases list one contaminated site, or site still under investigation, in Alassio, and 2 more have been cleaned up or closed. The report tells you whether one is close to the address.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Alassio: the report checks the address against the ISPRA maps.

House prices

The Revenue Agency's price ranges per square metre (OMI) apply to zones, not to whole municipalities: the report gives the range for the address's zone.

Land registry

The cadastral maps for Alassio are public: from the address the report finds the sheet and parcel number.

Liveability area by area

The Vicinalia liveability index runs from 0 to 100 and looks at the place, not the people who live there: services within walking distance, transport, green space, natural hazards, air, quiet, buildings and connection. Here it is worked out at the centre of each of the 67 inhabited census areas in Alassio. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 60 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 7.2%
  • fair 64.8%
  • good 28.0%

Vicinalia index by census area, licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Data: IdroGEO ISPRA (2026), Istat, INGV, EEA, AGCOM, Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.

The colour is the value at the centre of the area. For an exact address, search for it above: the free check looks at that exact point. How the index is worked out

Data sources

ISTAT code 009001. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.