Il Sole 24 Ore: better living in Italy of 2020

Every end of the year, Il Sole 24 Ore, an Italian national daily business newspaper owned by Confindustria, draws up a ranking of the most livable cities in Italy.

“Wealth and consumption”, “demography”, “health and jobs”, are some pf the parameters used in the yearly quest. Another big part that completely changed the order of this list, has been by the considering the effect of the 2020 pandemic.

On our article, we will be considering only the first six most livable Italian cities

  • Bologna

Bologna known as “La Dotta” (The Wise) is the town on top of the 2020 classifies. It is on the very first position for the best improvement on “culture and free time”, “business and jobs”, and the social spending on: home assistance and transportation for “elder and ill people, with an increase of 53.9%” [https://www.ilpost.it/2020/12/14/classifica-province-italia-2020/]

Bologna: the best town to live in 2020

Bologna, Parma at 8th, Forlì-Cesena 14th, Modena 15th, and Reggio are the five districts belonging to Emilia-Romagna region.

  • Bolzano

The second place is taken by Bolzano. This city is located in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, province of north Italy is a greater metro area has about 250,000 inhabitants and is one of the urban centers within the Alps. The Dolomites mountain town for the society and demography received the best score.

Bolzano 2nd position in 2020
  • Trento

“Environment and services”, “business and jobs”, “wealth and consumptions” lead this city on the third place. Trento is famous for the beauty of its landscape and the quality of its snow, it is a favorite destination for ski enthusiasts. Some of the most touristic spots are particularly Madonna di Campiglio, Canazei, Cavalese, and San Martino di Castrozza.

Trento 3rd position in 2020
  • Verona

“Romeo & Juliet” town receives is on the fourth place of the list for the good job on “environment and services” and “business and jobs.” The northern city belonging to Veneto region, has many touristic hot spots; such as: medieval old town built between the meandering Adige River. It’s also famous for a tiny balcony overlooking a courtyard is said be “Juliet’s House.”

Verona’s beauty in 2020
  • Trieste

Trieste is the capital city of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. Always known as a port city, it occupies a very small strip of land between the Adriatic coast and Slovenia’s border. According to the quest, this city did very well on “business and jobs”, and “environment and services.”

Trieste: Piazza dell’ Unita’
  • Udine

“Justice and security” are the winning categories that takes the city of Udine at the sixth place.  Its Friulian culture, the European melting-pot of Italian, Austrian and Slovene influences, gives the city a unique ambience, best experienced in its cuisine. Udine it is known in the entire world for the: San Daniele prosciutto, and Bastianich wines.

Udine

ANTONIA L. MOSCA

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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:

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

Benevento

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.

70TH 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.

Rocky Matera

19TH 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.

Piazza della libertà di Macerata

2ND 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.

Pordenone center

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

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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