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Pramollo: what to know before buying a home

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

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For example: Borgata Pellenchi 1, Pramollo.

Pramollo, a side valley off the Chisone valley

The Waldensian valleys west of Pinerolo have a religious and civic history of their own, and Pramollo is part of it. It is a small municipality in a side valley off the Val Chisone, with hamlets scattered among woods and meadows; the town hall stands at about six hundred and eighty metres. There is no real compact centre, rather a string of hamlets joined by narrow roads climbing the hillside.

Pinerolo is the reference for services, secondary schools and hospital, while the Chisone valley has the nearest shops. Buyers here almost always want an isolated house or an old hamlet building to restore. The right questions concern winter access, who maintains the road, water supply and drainage, and the state of the roof, whether stone slabs or tiles. This is climate zone F, and the heating stays on for much of the year.

According to Istat, Italy's national statistics office, there were 222 residents in 2023, against 242 in 2011, a fall of 8.3%. The estimated average age is 49.6, against 47.4 in the province of Turin, and over-65s make up 27.9%. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

On earthquakes, Pramollo is in zone 3 of the Civil Protection Department's scale, like 271 of the 312 municipalities in the province, with an expected ground acceleration of about 0.135 g in the built-up area. In stone houses, ask whether walls and floors were tied together during any renovation. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps, and the report also checks the official landslide hazard maps for the address, which is useful on a slope.

Key points

  • Municipality of hamlets in a side valley off the Val Chisone.
  • 222 residents in 2023, down 8.3% since 2011.
  • Main services in Pinerolo; long winters in climate zone F.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.135 g.

Overview

Pramollo is a municipality in the province of Torino, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 222 residents, among the smallest in the province (297 of 312).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Pramollo is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. The region uses a finer breakdown: here the classification is 3S. Most municipalities in the province (271 of 312) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.135 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 8.3%. The estimated average age is 50 years, higher than the province average (47). 28% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 4.1% of the population. On average, a household has 1.8 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Pramollo declared an average taxable income of 21,308 euros, below the provincial average (27,231 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Pramollo is in climate zone F, with 3,371 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 678 metres above sea level.

Services

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.8 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 1.3% of the land in Pramollo, compared with 8.6% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Pramollo is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte in 2023. 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 Pramollo.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Pramollo: 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 Pramollo 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 23 inhabited census areas in Pramollo. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 67 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 22.1%
  • good 77.9%

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 001204. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.