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Caprarola: 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 Filippo Nicolai 1, Caprarola.

Caprarola, Palazzo Farnese and the Cimini hazelnut groves

Palazzo Farnese closes off the top of the straight street running through Caprarola, and it is the reason the town is known outside Lazio. Designed by Vignola for the Farnese family on a pentagonal plan, the building is now a museum with gardens open to visitors. The town stands in the Cimini hills, above five hundred metres, a few kilometres from Lake Vico and its nature reserve.

Most of the countryside around Caprarola is planted with hazelnut groves, one of the main crops of the Tuscia area north of Rome. Viterbo is about twenty minutes away and Rome roughly an hour by car. The historic centre, packed tightly around the main street, has houses on several levels, often with steep stairs and little light, at low prices but with work to budget for; outside the centre there are detached houses and homes with land. At this altitude the climate zone is E, and heating an old stone house is expensive.

Istat, the Italian statistics office, counted 5,162 residents in 2023, down 3.4% on 2011. The average age is 47.4 against 47.5 in the province of Viterbo; 26.5% are over 65 and 11.8% are foreign nationals. The average declared income is below the provincial figure.

In the province of Viterbo, 40 municipalities are in seismic zone 2 of the Civil Protection classification, while Caprarola is in zone 3 like 19 others. The expected ground acceleration is about 0.096 g. For tufa and stone houses in the centre, ask whether the walls and floors have been strengthened, and when.

The town is built on volcanic ground, with narrow valleys and tufa cliffs, so on the slopes the report checks the landslide maps and the gradient at the address. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps, and the report can trace the plot from the address.

Key points

  • Vignola's Palazzo Farnese, in the Cimini hills near Lake Vico.
  • Residents down 3.4% since 2011; 11.8% foreign.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.096 g.
  • Tufa houses in the centre: ask about wall and floor strengthening.

Overview

Caprarola is a municipality in the province of Viterbo, in Lazio. At the end of 2023 it had 5,162 residents, ranked 17 of 60 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Caprarola is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. The region uses a finer breakdown: here the classification is 3A. 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 0.096 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 3.4%. The estimated average age is 47 years, in line with the province. 26% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 23%). Foreign residents make up 11.8% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Caprarola declared an average taxable income of 19,821 euros, below the provincial average (22,031 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Caprarola is in climate zone E, with 2,343 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 520 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Caprarola has 5 schools and 2 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 4 grocery shops and supermarkets, 1 healthcare facility, 3 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 4.4% of the land in Caprarola, compared with 4.7% in the province and 8.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 0.6 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is high. 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 Caprarola. 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 Caprarola: 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 Caprarola 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 34 inhabited census areas in Caprarola. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 80 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 10.1%
  • good 37.5%
  • very good 52.5%

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 056015. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.