Ragusa

For 2025 the Department of Finance lists for Ragusa a four-band municipal IRPEF surcharge, from 0.60% up to 15,000 euros to 0.80% above 50,000 euros (resolution no. 325 of 23 September 2024). The municipality applies the tourist tax and offers a free urban pass to students under 20 with ISEE up to 25,000 euros.

Public housing is managed by IACP Ragusa, which lets you book an appointment online and publishes forms, building sites and properties; in 2026 it has heritage requalification works funded by the PNRR under way. For tourist rentals the municipality applies the tourist tax. Rents and prices are in the data.

The municipality offers free home pickup of bulky waste, supply and repair of separate-collection bins, and an Environment Office at via M. Spadola 56. Markets include Piazza dei Cappuccini, the fruit-and-vegetable wholesale market and the Antico Mercato.

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).

The urban local bus service is the subject of an award procedure: the municipality published the award report on 24 April 2026, later amended in June after comments by the Transport Regulation Authority. Students under 20 with ISEE up to 25,000 euros can get the free monthly urban pass. The airport is Comiso.

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 depends on the ASP di Ragusa (head office at piazza Igea 1) and the Ragusa Health District. The city has two hospitals, the "Giovanni Paolo II" (via Tiralongo) and the "Maria Paternò Arezzo" (contrada Rito); the ASP publishes an emergency-room page with the priority codes. The phone CUP answers on 0932 658702.

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.

In Ragusa the University of Catania has its Special Teaching Structure (SDS), active since October 2022, with five degree courses: Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation, Management of Enterprises for the Sustainable Economy, Management of Mediterranean Agricultural Production Systems, Sport Sciences and the master's in Linguistic Sciences for Interculture and Education.

For UNESCO, Ragusa is one of the towns rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake in south-eastern Sicily, with a new centre beside the ancient one. The municipality distinguishes the Ragusa Ibla district and the localities of Marina di Ragusa and Donnafugata.

After the weather events that began on 18 January 2026 the municipality opened a notice for damage compensation (applications by 10 March 2026). Civil protection has a post at Marina di Ragusa that in summer organises sea rescue in support of the Port Authority. Temperatures and PM10 are in the data.

Ragusa's historic centre is part of the UNESCO site Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (2002). The municipality runs infopoints at the Castello di Donnafugata and at Marina di Ragusa, a City Museum at Palazzo Zacco and a visitable Antico Mercato; a Mobility Plan for Ibla is published.