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Bardolino: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Verona, Veneto. 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: Via Verona 1, Bardolino.

Bardolino, a lakeside town and wine hills on Lake Garda

Bardolino gives its name to one of the best-known red wines of Veneto, and its hills, shaped by the ancient glaciers of the Garda basin, are covered with vineyards and olive groves. The town is on the Verona shore of the lake, between Garda and Lazise, with its centre gathered around the harbour and the lakefront promenade. Inland are the villages of Calmasino and Cisano, quieter and with a different market from the waterfront.

Tourism shapes much of the property market. A large share of flats are second homes or holiday lets, and in summer the town fills up; in winter many shutters stay closed. If you are buying to live here all year, bear in mind that parking, traffic and noise change a lot with the seasons. Verona is about thirty kilometres away, the Affi junction on the A22 motorway is close by, and the most convenient railway station is at Peschiera. Declared incomes are above the provincial average.

Istat, the national statistics office, counted 6,916 residents in 2023, up 3.0% since 2011. The population is older than the Verona average: a mean age of 47.8 against 45.6, and 26.5% over 65 against 23.2%. Many people have moved to the lake to retire. Households are small, 2.07 people on average. The service figures reflect tourism: 153 cafés and restaurants, far more per head than across the province.

The Verona shore of Lake Garda is in seismic zone 2 under Italy's Civil Protection classification, like 54 other municipalities in the province, and the expected ground acceleration is about 0.164 g, a medium to high value. For buildings in the old centre and holiday apartment complexes built during the tourism boom, ask whether the structure has been checked and how the service charges are shared out.

Near the shore the report checks for the exact address the hazard from high water on the lake and local streams, and on the hills the landslide hazard. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes cadastral maps, so the report can go from the street number to the land parcel.

Key points

  • Verona shore of Lake Garda, with vineyards, olive groves and a lakefront.
  • Many second homes and holiday lets.
  • Over-65s at 26.5%, against 23.2% in the province.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration about 0.164 g.

Overview

Bardolino is a municipality in the province of Verona, in Veneto. At the end of 2023 it had 6,916 residents, ranked 36 of 98 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Bardolino is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Most municipalities in the province (55 of 98) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.164 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Bardolino, 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 grown by 3.0%. The estimated average age is 48 years, higher than the province average (46). 27% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 10.9% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Bardolino declared an average taxable income of 27,963 euros, above the provincial average (25,520 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Bardolino is in climate zone E, with 2,231 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 15 October to 15 April, for up to 14 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 65 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Bardolino has 6 schools and 2 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 5 grocery shops and supermarkets, 2 healthcare facilities, 8 sports facilities and 2 parks and green areas.

There are 0.3 healthcare facilities per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.7).

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 6.6% of the land in Bardolino, compared with 13.4% in the province and 11.9% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.0 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Bardolino is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Veneto in 2025. Radon varies from building to building and can only be known by measuring it, especially on ground floors and in basements.

Official databases list no open contaminated sites in Bardolino; 6 have been cleaned up or closed.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Bardolino: 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 Bardolino 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 94 inhabited census areas in Bardolino. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 62 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 1.8%
  • fair 67.3%
  • good 30.9%

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 023006. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.