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Belmonte Castello: what to know before buying a home

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

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Belmonte Castello, a hill village in the Cassino area

Belmonte Castello is a small village in the hills of southern Lazio, in the Cassino area of the province of Frosinone. Cassino is the reference point for almost everything: work, secondary schools, the hospital, the railway station and the A1 motorway junction, which connect the area to Rome and Naples. From the village you get there by car, driving down from the hills into the valley.

Here earthquakes come before anything else. In the province of Frosinone, 30 municipalities are in seismic zone 1 and 59 in zone 2 of the Civil Protection classification: Belmonte Castello is in zone 1, with an expected ground acceleration in the village of about 0.253 g, a high value. Before buying a masonry house, have a structural engineer assess it, and ask whether any seismic upgrading has already been done and documented, partly because it affects the tax incentives available for building work.

The village had 676 residents in 2023, 102 fewer than in 2011 (down 13.1%). The estimated average age is 49.2, against 46.8 for the province, and over-65s are 30.2%, above the provincial 25.4%. Households average 2.36 people and foreign residents are 3.3%. Average declared income is lower than in the province.

Houses follow the usual pattern of hill villages: old buildings in the historic core, newer homes along the access roads, and big differences in slope from one plot to the next. The report measures elevation and slope at the address and checks the official landslide and flood maps.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes cadastral maps for Belmonte Castello, and the report traces the address to its land parcel.

Key points

  • Hill village in the Cassino area, province of Frosinone.
  • Seismic zone 1, expected acceleration about 0.253 g.
  • 676 residents, down 13.1% since 2011.
  • Over-65s at 30.2%, against 25.4% in the province.

Overview

Belmonte Castello is a municipality in the province of Frosinone, in Lazio. At the end of 2023 it had 676 residents, among the smallest in the province (83 of 91).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Belmonte Castello is in seismic zone 1, the highest-risk zone, where very strong earthquakes are possible. Only 30 of 91 municipalities in the province are in zone 1.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.253 g, a high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Belmonte Castello, 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 13.1%. The estimated average age is 49 years, higher than the province average (47). 30% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 23%). Foreign residents make up 3.3% of the population. On average, a household has 2.4 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Belmonte Castello declared an average taxable income of 17,275 euros, below the provincial average (21,514 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Belmonte Castello has 2 schools and 1 pharmacy.

The data shows no grocery shops and supermarkets within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.7 per 1,000 residents.

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 3.6% of the land in Belmonte Castello, compared with 6.9% 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 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 Belmonte Castello. 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 Belmonte Castello: 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 Belmonte Castello 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 17 inhabited census areas in Belmonte Castello. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 60 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 2.7%
  • fair 97.3%

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 060013. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.