Salerno

Rents and purchase prices in the central zone are in the data below. Buses apply UnicoCampania fares; public lifts and escalators are almost all free. Parking in Salerno Mobilità areas is paid, with permits for ZPRU residents. Non-residents staying overnight pay the tourist tax, increased from 1 June 2026.

Public housing (ERP) allocations in Salerno go through the Comune's Housing Office (Ufficio Casa), via Giacomo Costa 2, which also deals with ACER. For 2026 the Region approved the call for the housing-needs register and ERP rankings; there is a fund for tenants facing eviction for arrears they could not avoid. OMI rents and prices are in the data.

Appointments with the registry office are booked on the Comune's portal and certificates are produced online through the Servizi Demografici Online. Salerno Pulita collects waste door to door with calendars by zone and type of user, including one in English for holiday accommodation. Salerno Mobilità manages parking and resident permits.

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).

Buses are run by Busitalia Campania, with tickets from the regional UnicoCampania system and contactless tickets on board. Public lifts and escalators run by Salerno Mobilità link the hillside districts. Salerno Airlink goes to the Costa d'Amalfi airport; a Busitalia bus also links the centre with Naples Capodichino. The port has Zaha Hadid's Maritime Station.

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 corresponds to Health District 66 of ASL Salerno, headquartered at via Nizza 146. The city hospital is the San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona university hospital (largo Città Ippocrate), with an emergency department; the ASL's own hospitals are in other towns of the province. Out-of-hours doctors in via Vernieri and Pastena; phone booking line 089 2875028.

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.

Salerno's commercial port is among the leading regional ports for containers and among the leading hubs for new cars, as well as a node of the Motorways of the Sea. The Campania Region's job centre and its targeted-placement office (Collocamento mirato) are both on via Generale Clark.

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 University of Salerno, a state university since 1968, is based on the Fisciano campus, with the Medicine classrooms on the Baronissi campus. Campus residences and the canteen are run by ADISURC, the regional agency for the right to study. The international office handles Erasmus+ and incoming mobility and offers a cultural and linguistic mediation service.

The patron saint is Matthew the Apostle, whose remains lie in the crypt of the cathedral commissioned by Robert Guiscard; on 21 September a procession carries the statues of the city's saints through the centre. Salerno ties its identity to the Salerno Medical School and to the Lombard principality, of which Arechi Castle remains.

ARPAC, Campania's environmental agency, runs the regional air-quality network and has carried out dedicated monitoring in Salerno's Fratte district, with a mobile laboratory and annual reports since 2022. Temperatures, rainfall and PM10 exceedances are in the data.

The medieval historic centre is visited on foot: the cathedral with Saint Matthew's crypt, via dei Mercanti with the Virtual Museum of the Medical School, the Minerva Garden. Above the city, Arechi Castle with its archaeological museum. In winter, the Luci d'Artista. Overnight visitors pay the tourist tax; from the Costa d'Amalfi airport the Salerno Airlink bus reaches the city.

The Teatro Verdi is the municipal theatre, with an annual season of opera, concerts and ballet. The main green spaces are the Mercatello park, the Pinocchio park for children and the Minerva Garden. Saint Matthew in September and the winter Luci d'Artista are the city's two big events.