Alessandria

For 2025 the municipality of Alessandria applies one of the higher banded municipal IRPEF surcharges: 0.8% up to 28,000 euros, 1.1% from 28,000 to 50,000 and 1.2% above 50,000 euros (resolution no. 49 of 15 April 2025); the ministry's sheet lists no exemption threshold. Rents, prices per square metre and the transport pass are in the data.

Social housing is handled by ATC Piemonte Sud, with its legal seat in Alessandria at via Milano 79 and offices in Asti and Cuneo too. General assignment calls are published on the agency's website on behalf of individual municipalities, which also offers tenant forms and an online counter. Rents and prices are in the data.

Appointments with municipal offices, including the registry and civil status offices, are booked on the municipality's service portal, which for the TARI waste tax points to the national transparency portal. The AMAG group's environmental services run through AMAG Ambiente: door-to-door collection, recycling centres and on-call pickup.

To enter with a dog, cat or ferret you need a microchip, an EU pet passport or health certificate and a valid rabies vaccination. Mandatory registration in the regional pet register, lead at all times and a muzzle to hand. Pets allowed on trains under Trenitalia rules and in apartment buildings by law.

Rules depend on who is arriving: EU/EEA/Swiss citizens (no visa, registration with the Comune after three months), non-EU citizens for stays up to 90 days (Schengen rule, type C visa where required) and for long stays (national type D visa and a residence permit within eight working days of arrival).

Urban transport in Alessandria (and Valenza) is run by AMAG Mobilità: timetables and fares on its site, tickets also purchasable by SMS, cards of the regional BIP – Biglietto Integrato Piemonte system and the Eccobus service. The company also runs structured car parks such as Rovereto and via Parma. In the winter months the anti-smog limits on older vehicles apply.

Euro, cards accepted almost everywhere, a legal cash limit. Anyone living in Italy for most of the year is tax resident and taxed on worldwide income under three IRPEF brackets; specific regimes exist for the self-employed (forfettario), inbound workers, foreign pensioners and new residents. Contributions go to INPS; annual return with the 730 or Redditi form.

The city is in the Alessandria-Valenza district of ASL AL, based at via Venezia 6. The city hospital is the SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo university hospital (via Venezia 16), with a DEA emergency department and the Cesare Arrigo children's site. Family doctor via the Salute Piemonte portal; out-of-hours doctor on 116117; regional CUP 800.000.500.

Non-EU pensioners enter with the elective residence visa, EU pensioners through free movement; public healthcare is accessible by compulsory or voluntary registration. Optional 7% regime on foreign income for those moving to small southern municipalities. Cheap houses in villages, services concentrated in cities.

A VAT number (partita IVA) from the Agenzia delle Entrate for freelancers; for businesses the Comunicazione Unica to the Registro delle Imprese, which also notifies the Agenzia, INPS, INAIL and SUAP. Main forms: sole proprietorship, SNC/SAS, SRL and SRLS, SPA. Compulsory PEC, annual chamber fee, e-invoicing. Invitalia incentives; non-EU citizens need a self-employment permit or the investor visa.

The municipal anti-smog protocol runs from 15 September to 15 April: structural limits on older vehicles in built-up areas and, when PM10 exceeds the thresholds for three consecutive days, orange and red levels of the ARPA traffic light with bans extended up to Euro 5 diesels, limits on wood heating and 18 degrees in buildings. The Move-In scheme allows mileage-based exemptions.

Among the places to visit, the municipality lists the Cittadella, an 18th-century fortress described as one of the largest permanent fortifications in Europe from that period, the Borsalino Hat Museum at corso Cento Cannoni 21, the civic museum at Palazzo Cuttica, the Gambarina ethnographic museum, the former church of San Francesco and the "Dina Bellotti" botanical garden.