Imagine living inside a walled Renaissance city where your morning run loops the ramparts, your bike crosses the whole town in twenty minutes, and the café pouring your espresso has been there longer than your home country.

This 8-page City Spotlight is your honest, beautifully designed guide to life in Lucca — the rarest kind of Italian city, still whole, still working, still walled. It's Tuscany with an English-speaking GP down the street, Pisa's airport twenty-five minutes away, and Florence just over an hour by train — at a price that finally makes Tuscany feel possible.

Inside you'll find:

• A real-world cost of living breakdown (rents inside vs. outside the walls, groceries, utilities, transport)

• The Move Score™ across affordability, healthcare, walkability, transport, and expat community

• Residency and visa pathways — including the Elective Residency Visa and Digital Nomad Visa

• Healthcare guidance: San Luca hospital, ASL enrollment, English-speaking doctors, Tessera Sanitaria

• The real Anglophone community — where Americans, Brits, and Canadians have quietly settled for decades

• Five honest reasons to move — and five challenges we won't sugarcoat, from climbing centro-storico rents to damp Tuscan winters

• Neighborhood picks (inside the walls, San Concordio, San Marco, the hills), local food culture, and Lucca's year-round calendar — Puccini, stadium rock, and Europe's biggest comics convention

Part of the Find Your Italy City Spotlight Series — research-backed, honestly told, and designed to help you decide if this is your Italy.

Issue No. 06 · April 2026 · Digital PDF · Instant download

Thinking about a move to southern Italy? Lecce might just be the city you didn't know you were looking for.

This 8-page City Spotlight is your honest, beautifully designed introduction to life in Puglia's Baroque capital — a honey-colored limestone city where a couple can live very well on under €1,500 a month, the Adriatic and Ionian coasts are twenty minutes away, and locals still have time for an evening passeggiata with a new neighbor.

Inside you'll find:

• A real-world cost of living breakdown (housing, food, utilities, transport)

• The Move Score™ across affordability, healthcare, walkability, and more

• Residency and visa pathways for retirees and remote workers

• Honest guidance on healthcare, language, climate, and bureaucracy

• Five genuine reasons to move — and five honest challenges we won't sugarcoat

• Neighborhood picks, food traditions, and the rhythms of daily Salentine life

Part of the Find Your Italy City Spotlight Series — research-backed, honestly told, and designed to help you decide if this is your Italy.

Issue No. 002 · Digital PDF · Instant download

Trieste is the answer a lot of expats don't know they're looking for. Top-ranked quality of life. Central rents still under €800. World-class healthcare. And a cultural identity that feels closer to Vienna or Ljubljana than Rome — in the best way.

This 10-page city spotlight is a full relocation briefing for anyone seriously considering a move to Trieste in 2026. It's the research you'd do yourself over weeks — costs, visas, healthcare, neighbourhoods, climate, culture — distilled into one beautifully designed guide by people who actually live this work.

Inside you'll find:

• A 2026 cost-of-living breakdown with real rent, utility and grocery ranges

• Transport, airports and cross-border routes to Slovenia, Austria and Croatia

• How to register with ASUGI and what to expect from public and private healthcare

• The neighbourhoods expats actually settle in — Borgo Teresiano, Cavana, Opicina and beyond

• Culture, climate, coffee — and the honest truth about the Bora wind

• Honest pros and cons, without the sugar-coating

• Residency pathways: Elective Residency Visa, Digital Nomad Visa, EU Blue Card, and Jure sanguinis

• Practical insider tips on the Comune, the research institutes, and the multilingual Mitteleuropa community

Whether you're a researcher weighing an offer from SISSA or ICTP, a retiree looking for Italy at a kinder price point, or simply done with the crowds of Florence and Rome — Trieste deserves a serious look. This guide gives you everything you need to decide with confidence.

Issue Nº 04 in the Find Your Italy City Spotlight series. Companion HTML and print-ready PDF included.

Why Bologna

Bologna doesn't make the front page the way Rome or Florence do — and that's exactly why so many relocators are discovering it. This is a city with a world-class university, one of the richest food cultures in Italy, a genuinely liveable pace, and a property market that still offers real value.

But finding the right home here takes more than a Rightmove search. It takes knowing which neighbourhoods fit your lifestyle, what rental and purchase prices actually look like on the ground, and how life in Bologna unfolds day to day — beyond the pasta and the porticoes.

This report gives you all of that, researched and written so you can move forward with clarity.

Bologna rewards those who do their homework. This report is that homework — done for you.