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Gabicce Mare: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Pesaro e Urbino, Marche. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.

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For example: Via Romagna 1, Gabicce Mare.

Gabicce Mare, between the beach and Monte San Bartolo

The last stretch of the Marche coast before Romagna belongs to Gabicce Mare. The Tavollo stream separates it from Cattolica, and the two resorts run into each other so closely that many people treat them as one seaside town. Behind the beach rises the San Bartolo headland, a nature park, with Gabicce Monte at the top and a scenic road running on towards Pesaro.

Buying here means entering a holiday market. Much of the property is holiday flats, hotels and serviced apartments, and the town empties in winter. The municipality is squeezed between sea and hill and largely built up. Near the seafront prices are those of a beach resort; at Gabicce Monte and on the slopes of the headland there are villas and houses with a view, but also steep gradients. For travel there is Cattolica station on the Adriatic railway, and the A14 motorway junction just over the regional border.

At the end of 2023 Gabicce Mare had 5,471 residents, 6.4% fewer than in 2011. The population is older than the province of Pesaro and Urbino as a whole: average age 49.2 against 46.9, with 28.1% over 65. Households are small, 2.06 people on average.

The whole province is in seismic zone 2 of the national classification, and here the expected ground acceleration is about 0.183 g. Many apartment blocks date from the years of mass tourism, so before buying find out when the building was designed and whether its structure has been strengthened.

Monte San Bartolo ends in a cliff above the sea and its slopes are prone to landslides. The report checks the official maps for the individual address, and the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) cadastral maps are available.

Key points

  • The last town on the Marche coast, joined to Cattolica.
  • Gabicce Monte and the San Bartolo park behind the beach.
  • Average age 49.2 against 46.9 in the province.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration about 0.183 g.

Overview

Gabicce Mare is a municipality in the province of Pesaro e Urbino, in Marche. At the end of 2023 it had 5,471 residents, ranked 15 of 50 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Gabicce Mare is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. All 50 municipalities in the province are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.183 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Gabicce Mare, 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 6.4%. The estimated average age is 49 years, higher than the province average (47). 28% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 26%). Foreign residents make up 8.4% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Gabicce Mare declared an average taxable income of 22,902 euros, in line with the province (23,718 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Gabicce Mare is in climate zone E, with 2,114 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 11 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Gabicce Mare has 5 schools and 2 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 6 grocery shops and supermarkets, 3 healthcare facilities, 10 sports facilities and 2 parks and green areas.

There are 1.1 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, more 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 32.7% of the land in Gabicce Mare, compared with 6.8% in the province and 7.0% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.4 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Official databases list 2 contaminated sites, or sites still under investigation, in Gabicce Mare, and one more has been cleaned up or closed. 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 Gabicce Mare: 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 Gabicce Mare 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 28 inhabited census areas in Gabicce Mare. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 70 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 0.1%
  • fair 24.6%
  • good 75.4%

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 041019. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.