Cuneo

For 2025 the Department of Finance lists a four-band municipal IRPEF surcharge for Cuneo, from 0.7% up to 15,000 euros to 0.8% above 50,000 euros, with no exemption thresholds reported. Housing rents and prices and the bus pass cost are in the data.

Public housing, built by the municipality or the ATC, is allocated by the municipal Housing Office through a call issued roughly every three to four years (the last in 2023). As a rule you need at least five years of residence or work in Piedmont. ATC Piemonte Sud has its Cuneo office at via Santa Croce 11. Rents and prices in the data.

Appointments with municipal offices, including the registry and civil status offices, are booked online from the municipal portal. Waste-service governance lies with the C.E.C. – Consorzio Ecologico Cuneese; the TARI waste tax is handled by the Waste Tax Office, with a transparency portal. The market is held on Tuesdays in piazza Galimberti.

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).

Public transport in the conurbation is run by the companies of the GrandaBus consortium, with timetables and travel info on the Moeves portal, an on-demand service and a bicycle station. The centre has a ZTL and a "Centro Storico" area with parking passes for residents; a panoramic lift links the centre to the river park. Pass cost in the data.

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 municipality is in the territory of ASL CN1, headquartered at via Carlo Boggio 12 and organised in four district areas. The city hospital is the S. Croce e Carle Hospital, an autonomous trust. The out-of-hours service is activated by calling 116117; the family doctor can also be chosen online on the Salute Piemonte portal.

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.

In the second quarter of 2026 industrial production in the province of Cuneo grew by 5.2% on the same period of 2025, well above the Piedmont figure (+2.8%), with total and export turnover slightly down. Employment and unemployment rates in the data.

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.

Under an agreement running until the 2041/2042 academic year, the University of Turin teaches in Cuneo courses including Business Administration, Law in blended mode, Sport and Exercise Sciences, master's degrees in the agri-food area and health-profession courses such as Nursing. Main sites: the former Mater Amabilis and the former Macello; student housing at the former Casa Samone with EDISU.

The city takes its name from the wedge shape of the plateau between the Stura and the Gesso. Its 22 neighbourhood and hamlet committees are divided between Altipiano, Oltrestura and Oltregesso; on 28 and 29 November 2026 they are elected for the first time in a single election day. Piazza Galimberti hosts the house-museum of partisan Duccio Galimberti; contrada Mondovì was the old Jewish ghetto.

Cuneo applies the regional traffic restrictions ("Plain" zone), with the anti-smog traffic light active from 15 September to 15 April. In the national list it is in seismic zone 3 (code "3S"). According to ISPRA, 538 residents, about 1%, live in areas of medium flood hazard, which also contain almost half of the listed cultural heritage sites; landslides affect a single resident.

Piazza Galimberti with the house-museum of partisan Duccio Galimberti, pedestrian via Roma and the arcades of corso Nizza, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Bosco, the Civic Tower of 1317, contrada Mondovì with the Diocesan Museum, the Civic Museum and the Gesso and Stura river park with its panoramic lift. In October the National Chestnut Fair fills the historic centre.

The Gesso and Stura river park surrounds the city, with recreational areas also reached by the panoramic lift; cycling routes such as the climbs to Colle dell'Agnello and Colle Fauniera start from Cuneo, and there is a bicycle station. The recurring event is the National Chestnut Fair, in October in the historic centre.