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Brentonico: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. 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 Giuseppe Mazzini 1, Brentonico.

Brentonico, the Monte Baldo plateau above the Vallagarina

Above Mori and the Vallagarina, on the Trentino side of Monte Baldo, lies the Brentonico plateau, at about 700 metres. The municipality consists of many hamlets scattered across meadows, woods and pastures, and higher up are the resorts of San Valentino and Polsa, busy in winter for skiing and in summer for walking. Monte Baldo is known to botanists for the variety of its flora, so much so that it is called the garden of Europe.

For buyers the choice is between houses in the villages, often old stone buildings, and the many holiday flats in the higher resorts. Rovereto and the Adige valley are reached by a mountain road that winds down, easy in summer and harder in snow and ice. The climate is that of zone F: long winters and heating that weighs on household budgets.

The municipality is growing: 4,121 residents in 2023, 6.2% more than in 2011. The average age is 45.9, similar to the province (45.4), and over-65s make up 24.9%. Foreign residents account for 7.2%. Declared incomes remain below the Trentino average.

Brentonico is in seismic zone 3 of the Civil Protection classification, like the great majority of Trentino municipalities (147 in all). Expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is about 0.145 g, not a low value for this class. For stone houses, ask whether roofs and floors have been redone and what work was done on the walls.

As throughout Trentino, property is recorded in the land book (Libro fondiario, the tavolare system) and the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) does not publish cadastral maps. The report says so and works from the address, checking landslides and rockfall on the slopes of Monte Baldo. Property details are checked at the land book office.

Key points

  • Plateau on Monte Baldo, above Mori and the Vallagarina.
  • San Valentino and Polsa for skiing and walking.
  • 4,121 residents, up 6.2% since 2011.
  • Tavolare land book: no Revenue Agency cadastral maps.

Overview

Brentonico is a municipality in the province of Trento, in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. At the end of 2023 it had 4,121 residents, ranked 26 of 166 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Brentonico is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (147 of 166) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.145 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 grown by 6.2%. The estimated average age is 46 years, in line with the province. 25% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 22%). Foreign residents make up 7.2% of the population. On average, a household has 2.2 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Brentonico declared an average taxable income of 23,936 euros, below the provincial average (25,718 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Brentonico is in climate zone F, with 3,470 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 692 metres above sea level.

Services

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

The data shows no healthcare facilities within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.5 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 3.2% of the land in Brentonico, compared with 3.1% in the province and 2.9% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Brentonico is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Provincia autonoma di Trento in 2026. 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 no contaminated sites in Brentonico.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Brentonico: 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

For Brentonico the Revenue Agency does not publish cadastral maps: the land registry here uses the tavolare (land book) system. The report cannot give a parcel reference, but it still checks risks, services and transport at the address and states this clearly.

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 63 inhabited census areas in Brentonico. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 65 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 46.3%
  • good 53.7%

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 022025. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.