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Quaranti: what to know before buying a home

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

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Quaranti, a small village in the Asti hills

Quaranti is a handful of houses on the Monferrato hills, in the southern part of the province of Asti. The land is a pattern of low ridges and farmed slopes, with provincial roads linking the nearby villages and dropping to the valley floors, where the towns with shops and schools are.

Buyers here are usually after a country house or a farmhouse to restore, to live in all year or at weekends. In old farmhouses, look hard at roofs, brick and stone walls, damp, wiring, plumbing and drainage, and it often pays to have a surveyor estimate the work before you negotiate the price. On sloping plots the report measures the gradient at the house and checks the official landslide maps.

The village has been losing people: 155 residents in 2023 against 184 in 2011, a fall of 15.8% according to Istat, the national statistics office. The average age is 53.5 (provincial figure 47.9) and 38.7% of residents are over 65. Foreign residents account for 7.7%. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

On earthquakes, Quaranti is an exception in its province. It is in seismic zone 3 together with 3 other municipalities, while the remaining 113 in the province of Asti are in zone 4, the lowest. Expected ground acceleration is still low, about 0.055 g, and for a soundly built house routine maintenance matters more than seismic risk.

The climate is zone E, with cold winters and fog in the valley bottoms. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes cadastral maps here, so the report goes from the street address to the land parcel and map sheet.

Key points

  • Hill village in Monferrato, in the south of the province of Asti.
  • 155 residents in 2023, down 15.8% since 2011.
  • One of 4 Asti municipalities in seismic zone 3.
  • Farmhouses to assess with a surveyor: roofs, walls, damp.

Overview

Quaranti is a municipality in the province of Asti, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 155 residents, among the smallest in the province (112 of 117).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Quaranti is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Only 4 of 117 municipalities in the province are in zone 3.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.055 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 15.8%. The estimated average age is 54 years, higher than the province average (48). 39% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 7.7% of the population. On average, a household has 1.8 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Quaranti declared an average taxable income of 18,914 euros, below the provincial average (24,302 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Quaranti is in climate zone E, with 2,711 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 273 metres above sea level.

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 6.0% of the land in Quaranti, compared with 7.3% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Quaranti is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte in 2023. According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is low. 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 Quaranti.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Quaranti: 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 Quaranti 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 5 inhabited census areas in Quaranti. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 57 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 1.3%
  • fair 98.7%

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 005088. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.