Italy: the best livable towns of 2019

The University of Rome “La Sapienza” and “ItaliaOggi” have completed a research on the Italian region which are considered as the best quality of life. The index for this research were made using different factors; such as: job and business, standard of living, demography, social safety, education.

On this study came out a pretty straight forward classifies, which sees the North on a terrific leading role of the entire Italy. Just to be fair, we will linger on “the best” North, Center, and South.

We will outline the first five towns of the classifies:

75^TH POSITION: Benevento, is a city that belongs to the Campania region.

This city occupies the site of the ancient Beneventum, originally Maleventum or even earlier Maloenton. The meaning of the name of the town is evidenced by its former Latin name, translating as good or fair wind. In the imperial period it was supposed to have been founded by Diomedes after the Trojan War.

70^TH POSITION: We find Matera, a Southern city in the region of Basilicata. It is a location well known for the rocks or “sassi”, and if you will ever visit this suggestive place, you will be able to go to a museum which shows a variety of rocks. Another essential point to know is that the area it is because, it has been settled since the Palaeolithic (10th millennium BC). This makes it potentially one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world.

19^TH POSITION: Macerata is an historical city, located on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza rivers. It first consisted of the Picenes city named Ricina (Helvia Recina), then, after its romanization, Recina and Helvia Recina. After the destruction of Helvia Recina by the barbarians, the inhabitants took shelter in the hills and eventually began to rebuild the city.

2^ND POSITION: Pordenone is province of northeast Italy in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Pordenone was created in the High Middle Ages as a river port on the Noncello, with the name Portus Naonis. In the area, however, there were already villas and agricultural settlements in the Roman age.

1^ST POSTION: Trento over this 2019 study received the 1.000,00 points.

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It is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th century, the city was the location of the Council of Trent. Formerly part of Austria and Austria-Hungary, it was annexed by Italy in 1919. With almost 120,000 inhabitants, Trento is the third largest city in the Alps and second largest in the Tyrol.

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