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Bassano Romano: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Viterbo, Lazio. 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 Roma 1, Bassano Romano.

Bassano Romano, Palazzo Giustiniani in the Sabatini hills

Palazzo Giustiniani, with its frescoed rooms and large park, still dominates the centre of Bassano Romano, the town that the Genoese Giustiniani family turned into a showpiece estate in the seventeenth century. This is the southern Tuscia, between Sutri, Oriolo Romano and Capranica, on the Sabatini hills north of Lake Bracciano.

The ground is typical of this part of Lazio, volcanic in origin, and many houses in the old centre are built of tuff, a soft volcanic stone, with cellars dug into the rock. For a buyer that means checking damp, the state of the vaults and any underground rooms. Outside the centre there are detached houses and country homes among hazelnut groves and chestnut woods.

Rome is about an hour away by car, and trains are caught at stations in neighbouring towns on the line to Viterbo. Istat, the national statistics office, recorded 4,629 residents in 2023, down 4.2% since 2011. The average age is 48.5 (47.5 for the province), over-65s make up 26.9% and foreign residents 11.4%, more than in many nearby towns. Declared incomes are in line with the provincial average.

The province of Viterbo has 40 municipalities in seismic zone 2 and 20 in zone 3. Bassano Romano is in zone 3, with an expected ground acceleration in the built-up area of about 0.081 g. In tuff and stone houses, it matters whether strengthening work has been done and how any cavities beneath the building have been dealt with. The climate, zone D, brings cooler winters than on the coast.

Key points

  • Southern Tuscia, on the Sabatini hills between Sutri and Oriolo.
  • Palazzo Giustiniani and tuff houses in the old centre.
  • 4,629 residents, down 4.2% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.081 g.

Overview

Bassano Romano is a municipality in the province of Viterbo, in Lazio. At the end of 2023 it had 4,629 residents, ranked 20 of 60 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Bassano Romano is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. The region uses a finer breakdown: here the classification is 3B. Only 20 of 60 municipalities in the province are in zone 3.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.081 g, a moderate value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

Even in zone 3, seismic standards apply to new buildings: for an older building, ask about the design year and any structural work.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 4.2%. The estimated average age is 48 years, in line with the province. 27% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 23%). Foreign residents make up 11.4% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Bassano Romano declared an average taxable income of 22,557 euros, in line with the province (22,031 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Bassano Romano is in climate zone D, with 2,060 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 1 November to 15 April, for up to 12 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 360 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Bassano Romano has 5 schools and 2 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 3 grocery shops and supermarkets, 1 healthcare facility, 2 sports facilities and 3 parks and green areas.

There are 0.2 healthcare facilities 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 5.2% of the land in Bassano Romano, compared with 4.7% in the province and 8.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is medium. 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 Bassano Romano. 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 Bassano Romano: 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 Bassano Romano 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 33 inhabited census areas in Bassano Romano. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 70 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 0.9%
  • fair 26.0%
  • good 73.1%

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 056005. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.