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Torremaggiore: what to know before buying a home

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

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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: Viale Ugo La Malfa 1, Torremaggiore.

Torremaggiore, the ducal castle on the edge of the Tavoliere

Torremaggiore overlooks the north-western side of the Tavoliere plain, just west of San Severo, where the land starts rising towards the Monti Dauni hills. The ducal castle dominates the old town, and the municipality includes the ruins of Castel Fiorentino, where Emperor Frederick II died in 1250. Around the town the fields are planted with vines, olives and wheat.

The old centre, with alleys and masonry houses built against one another, occupies the highest part; the districts built in the later twentieth century run down towards the plain with small blocks and two or three-storey houses. San Severo and Foggia, reached by car, are where people go for work and services. With an old house in the centre, budget for work on the roof, wiring, plumbing and structure.

Torremaggiore is losing residents: at the end of 2023 there were 16,471, down 5.1% on 2011. It is still younger than the province of Foggia, with an estimated average age of 44.1 against 45.2 and over-65s at 21.4% against 23.3%. Households average 2.43 people and foreign residents are 7.7%.

Earthquakes are part of local history. In the seventeenth century a violent shock devastated San Severo, Torremaggiore and the surrounding towns. Today, in the national classification by the Civil Protection department, the municipality is in seismic zone 2, like 50 others in the province, and the expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is about 0.206 g, a high value. Before buying an old masonry house, have a surveyor look at it and ask whether it has been strengthened; for recent buildings, ask for the design date.

In the hilly part the report measures gradient and landslide hazard; on the plain it looks at flooding along the streams. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the land registry maps, and the house number leads to the plot.

Key points

  • Ducal castle and Castel Fiorentino ruins, west of San Severo.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration about 0.206 g.
  • 16,471 residents, down 5.1% since 2011.
  • Average age 44.1, younger than the province (45.2).

Overview

Torremaggiore is a municipality in the province of Foggia, in Puglia. At the end of 2023 it had 16,471 residents, ranked 8 of 61 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Torremaggiore is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Most municipalities in the province (51 of 61) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.206 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Torremaggiore, 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 5.1%. The estimated average age is 44 years, in line with the province. 21% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 7.7% of the population. On average, a household has 2.4 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Torremaggiore declared an average taxable income of 16,472 euros, below the provincial average (18,478 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Torremaggiore is in climate zone D, with 1,549 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 1 November to 15 April, for up to 12 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 169 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Torremaggiore has 13 schools and 5 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 19 grocery shops and supermarkets, 14 healthcare facilities, 12 sports facilities and 1 green area.

There are 1.2 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, more than the province average (0.6).

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 3.2% of the land in Torremaggiore, compared with 4.1% in the province and 8.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.3 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Torremaggiore is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Puglia in 2025. 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 2 contaminated sites, or sites still under investigation, in Torremaggiore, 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 Torremaggiore: 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 Torremaggiore 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 55 inhabited census areas in Torremaggiore. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 70 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 0.9%
  • fair 13.3%
  • good 85.7%

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 071056. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.