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Lanusei: what to know before buying a home

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

Search for an address in Lanusei

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 Dante 7, Milan.

Lanusei, Ogliastra's hillside capital

Lanusei is a small hill town in Ogliastra, eastern Sardinia, built on slopes that look out towards the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the seat of a diocese and shares the role of provincial capital of Ogliastra with Tortolì, the town on the coast. Ogliastra is known well beyond Italy for the long lives of its people: it is one of the places in the world where life expectancy is exceptionally high, studied as a "blue zone".

Buying a home in Lanusei means choosing a town of steep streets, houses built into the hillside and views reaching the coast. The gradient is the first thing to look at. The report measures the elevation and slope of the ground at the address and checks the official landslide hazard maps, as well as the flood maps along watercourses. This information applies to the individual plot, not to the town as a whole.

Otherwise the picture is calm. All 23 municipalities in Ogliastra, Lanusei included, are in seismic zone 4, the lowest step of the national classification. In older houses, what matters most is the upkeep of roofs and walls, insulation and the state of the heating and electrics.

Even a small town has cadastral maps: the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes them for Lanusei, and the report works back to the land parcel from the address.

If you are weighing up a purchase from a distance, the report also shows how far schools, pharmacies and shops are, measured from the exact location of the house rather than from the town centre.

Key points

  • Hillside joint capital of Ogliastra, with Tortolì.
  • Slope and landslide risk to be checked plot by plot.
  • All 23 municipalities in Ogliastra in seismic zone 4.
  • Revenue Agency cadastral maps available.

Overview

Lanusei is the capital of the province of Ogliastra, in Sardegna. At the end of 2023 it had 5,024 residents, ranked 0 of 23 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Lanusei is in seismic zone 4, the lowest-risk zone, where strong earthquakes are very rare. All 23 municipalities in the province are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.050 g, a moderate value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

In zone 4 the risk is low, but for an older building it is still worth asking about the state of the structure.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood risk changes from one street to the next, even within the same municipality: for this reason we do not summarise it as a single figure for the whole of Lanusei.

The report checks the exact address against the ISPRA national maps and tells you in plain words whether the building falls within an at-risk area. The official map is also available on IdroGEO.

House prices

We do not publish price tables by municipality. The report gives the minimum and maximum price per square metre for the address's zone, from the Revenue Agency's OMI valuations, with the reference half-year. It is a range for the zone, not the value of a specific home.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 8.5%. The estimated average age is 49 years, in line with the province. 29% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 2.8% of the population. On average, a household has 2.0 members.

Public transport

We do not yet have open public transport timetables for this municipality: the report says so explicitly, without inventing distances.

Land registry

The Revenue Agency publishes the cadastral maps for Lanusei: the report finds the building's parcel, that is its sheet and parcel number, starting from the address.

Data sources

ISTAT code 116010. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.