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Impruneta: what to know before buying a home

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

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Impruneta, terracotta and the hills south of Florence

Impruneta's name is bound up with terracotta. The town's kilns have made bricks, oil jars and pots for centuries, and tradition has it that the bricks for Brunelleschi's dome in Florence came from here. The main village gathers around its large square and the basilica of Santa Maria all'Impruneta, a little under three hundred metres up, in the hills between Florence and the Chianti.

The municipality has several faces. Tavarnuzze, down on the Via Cassia near the Firenze Impruneta junction of the A1 motorway and the start of the dual carriageway to Siena, is the easiest hamlet for daily trips into the city. The hill hamlets, such as Pozzolatico, Mezzomonte or Ferrone, have villas, farmhouses and smallholdings among olives and vines, with narrow roads and few services within walking distance. Overture Maps data list only 2 supermarkets, so the big weekly shop often happens elsewhere.

It is a well-off and rather older municipality: declared incomes are above the average for the Metropolitan City of Florence, the estimated average age is 48.5 against 47.3, and over-65s are 28.7% against 26.1%. At the end of 2023 Istat, the national statistics office, counted 14,346 residents, down 2.2% since 2011; households are small at 2.20 people, and foreign residents make up 10.4%.

Impruneta is in seismic zone 3 of the Civil Protection scale, with an expected ground acceleration of about 0.124 g. A stone farmhouse has usually been through several renovations, so check whether walls and floors were strengthened as well as the roof and systems. Winters in the hills are colder than in Florence (climate zone E) and insulation shows up in the bills.

On the slopes the report checks gradient and landslide maps, along the streams it checks flood-prone areas, always for the exact address. The Revenue Agency's cadastral maps are published, so the address leads to the land parcel.

Key points

  • Terracotta kilns and the basilica of Santa Maria in the hills above Florence.
  • Tavarnuzze near the A1; hill hamlets with villas and smallholdings.
  • Average age 48.5, over-65s at 28.7%.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.124 g.

Overview

Impruneta is a municipality in the province of Firenze, in Toscana. At the end of 2023 it had 14,346 residents, ranked 19 of 41 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Impruneta is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (28 of 41) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.124 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 2.2%. The estimated average age is 48 years, in line with the province. 29% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 26%). Foreign residents make up 10.4% of the population. On average, a household has 2.2 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Impruneta declared an average taxable income of 29,023 euros, above the provincial average (27,023 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Impruneta is in climate zone E, with 2,186 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 275 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Impruneta has 9 schools and 4 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 2 grocery shops and supermarkets, 6 healthcare facilities, 14 sports facilities and 4 parks and green areas.

There are 0.1 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.4).

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 9.0% of the land in Impruneta, compared with 7.4% in the province and 6.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Impruneta is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Toscana in 2025. 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 Impruneta, and 3 more have 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 Impruneta: 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 Impruneta 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 88 inhabited census areas in Impruneta. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 60 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 4.8%
  • fair 66.6%
  • good 28.6%

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 048022. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.