Ravenna

Since 15 September 2026 bus line 1 runs without tickets, linking free park-and-ride car parks, the hospital and the centre. Start Romagna offers Under 26 passes and an Over 70 pass for residents of the Ravenna area. The Comune runs the regional rent contribution for the district. OMI rents and prices are in the data.

Public housing (ERP) and social rental housing (ERS) in the province are managed by ACER Ravenna, which also publishes the canone concordato agreements. The regional rent contribution for the Ravenna-Cervia-Russi district is applied for online. Students have the ER.GO San Vitale – San Giovanni residence in the centre.

Registry and civil-status services with online appointment booking; the town hall is at piazza del Popolo 1. The Biblioteca Classense on via Baccarini, with its Junior section and branches as far as Marina di Ravenna and Sant'Alberto. Informagiovani by appointment and the RITI intercultural network for residents, foreign-born or not.

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).

Start Romagna buses with zone fares and the Mi Muovo card; regional rail passes are also valid on Ravenna's buses. Line 1 ticket-free since 15 September 2026. A single train+bus ticket to Marina di Ravenna. Since September 2026 the Forlì airport has been named Forlì-Ravenna Airport.

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.

Ravenna hosts the head office of the AUSL della Romagna. The Santa Maria delle Croci hospital on viale Randi is a level-II DEA emergency hospital; for low-complexity urgent care the CAU on via Fiume Abbandonato is open daily from 8am to 8pm.

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.

The port of Ravenna, the only one in Emilia-Romagna, is multipurpose and Italy's leader for trade with the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea; the Port System Authority runs a port-jobs portal. Offshore, a breakwater protecting the regasification vessel is under construction. The Informagiovani office offers guidance and job-search help.

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 Alma Mater's Ravenna Campus offers 18 bachelor's and master's degrees and one PhD in cultural heritage, environment, law, urban and offshore engineering, materials chemistry and health care; 32% of the courses are international and there are already the first Medicine graduates. ER.GO residence in the centre.

A municipality stretching from the historic centre to the sea, divided into ten zones with as many Territorial Councils. Eight UNESCO-listed Early Christian monuments, Dante's tomb with a daily reading of a canto of the Commedia, the Candiano port canal. In 2026 Ravenna is Italian Capital of the Sea.

Ravenna's territory is affected by subsidence, tackled since 1980 by a law placing groundwater extraction under control; along the coast the phenomenon is slowing, except between Lido Adriano and the mouth of the Bevano. From October to March the regional anti-smog measures apply through municipal ordinances.

Eight UNESCO-listed Early Christian monuments built in the 5th and 6th centuries, Dante's tomb with the perpetual reading of the Commedia and Casa Dante, MAR in the Loggetta Lombardesca, the National Museum in the cloisters of San Vitale and Classis Ravenna. Tourist information office at piazza San Francesco 7.

Nine beach resorts along about 35 km of coast, with more than 200 bathing establishments and Blue Flag beaches; pinewoods, dunes and the mouth of the Bevano close to the sea; the NatuRa museum on the animals of the Po Delta; Mirabilandia about 10 km from the city towards Rimini.