<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[ITS Journal]]></title><description><![CDATA[ITS Journal collects the stories of Italians living abroad, of Italians returning to Italy from abroad, and of foreigners who decide to move to Italy. A newsletter about Italians. In short, ITS Journal.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qRzi!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b55f6a4-bd3f-47fc-a61d-8cff0a8cfce8_1024x1024.png</url><title>ITS Journal</title><link>https://www.itsjournal.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:07:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.itsjournal.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[ITS ITALY Ltd]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[itsjournal@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[itsjournal@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[itsjournal@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[itsjournal@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[L’Italia cerca braccia. E intanto si lascia sfuggire i talenti di chi parte e anche di chi arriva.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Le braccia servono, eccome. Ma mentre molti giovani italiani cercano opportunit&#224; all&#8217;estero, il nostro Paese fatica a valorizzare anche le competenze di chi sceglie di trasferirsi qui.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/litalia-cerca-braccia-e-intanto-si</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/litalia-cerca-braccia-e-intanto-si</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matteo Cerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:35:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pSXM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd4f9c47-1801-4183-a7f9-46bc729b2ef2_1978x1318.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" 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Da una parte lamenta la mancanza di lavoratori e cerca nuove braccia per sostenere un&#8217;economia che invecchia. Dall&#8217;altra continua a perdere giovani qualificati che cercano opportunit&#224; all&#8217;estero e fatica a riconoscere pienamente le competenze di molte persone che arrivano da altri Paesi. Le braccia servono, naturalmente. Ma sarebbe interessante ricordarsi che, generalmente, sono attaccate a persone che hanno anche una testa, una formazione, delle ambizioni e magari un&#8217;esperienza professionale che potrebbe tornare utile.</p><p>Il nuovo <strong><a href="https://www.cnel.it/comunicazione-e-stampa/notizie/news/detail/2026/10/13/al-cnel-la-presentazione-del-xvi-rapporto-annuale-sull-economia-dell-immigrazione">Rapporto 2026 sull&#8217;economia dell&#8217;immigrazione</a></strong>, presentato il 13 ottobre al <strong>CNEL</strong> dalla <strong>Fondazione Leone Moressa</strong>, offre numeri significativi. Gli occupati di origine immigrata sono 2,6 milioni, pari al 10,7% del totale, e generano 197 miliardi di euro di valore aggiunto. Gli imprenditori nati all&#8217;estero sono quasi 796.000, cresciuti del 21,3% nell&#8217;ultimo decennio, mentre quelli nati in Italia sono diminuiti del 5,2%.</p><p>Eppure il rapporto segnala una forte concentrazione del lavoro straniero nelle occupazioni meno qualificate, con difficolt&#224; particolarmente marcate per le donne. Il problema, quindi, non &#232; soltanto quante persone riusciamo ad attirare, ma quale spazio offriamo loro una volta arrivate.</p><p><strong>Un Paese che cerca lavoratori, ma non sempre riconosce le competenze</strong></p><p>Agricoltura, edilizia e ristorazione hanno un bisogno concreto di personale. Non c&#8217;&#232; nulla di sbagliato nel riconoscerlo, n&#233; nel valorizzare professioni manuali indispensabili. Il problema nasce quando la necessit&#224; di coprire determinati posti diventa il principale criterio con cui guardiamo alle persone provenienti dall&#8217;estero.</p><p>Un titolo di studio difficile da riconoscere, una carriera professionale che deve ricominciare da zero, un mercato poco accessibile senza conoscenze locali: sono ostacoli che possono ridurre il contributo di chi arriva, indipendentemente dalla sua disponibilit&#224; a lavorare.</p><p>Non tutti gli immigrati sono professionisti sovraqualificati, naturalmente, e il rapporto non misura le esperienze di ogni categoria di expat. Ma il suo messaggio riguarda anche chi sta valutando di trasferirsi in Italia: trovare un&#8217;occupazione non significa necessariamente trovare un&#8217;opportunit&#224; all&#8217;altezza delle proprie competenze.</p><p><strong>E intanto i talenti italiani partono</strong></p><p>Qui emerge un paradosso che meriterebbe maggiore attenzione. Mentre il Paese cerca lavoratori all&#8217;estero, molti giovani italiani, compresi laureati e professionisti qualificati, decidono di costruire altrove il proprio futuro.</p><p>Non partono tutti per le stesse ragioni. C&#8217;&#232; chi cerca stipendi migliori, chi desidera un ambiente pi&#249; internazionale, chi vuole fare ricerca, crescere professionalmente o semplicemente lavorare in un&#8217;organizzazione dove responsabilit&#224; e risultati vengano riconosciuti.</p><p>Sarebbe semplicistico sostenere che l&#8217;emigrazione giovanile e il sottoutilizzo delle competenze straniere siano lo stesso fenomeno. Ma &#232; difficile non vedere una questione comune: <strong>quanto &#232; capace il sistema italiano di riconoscere, utilizzare e premiare il talento, indipendentemente dalla sua provenienza?</strong></p><p>Se fatichiamo a trattenere quello che abbiamo formato e a valorizzare quello che arriva, forse il problema non si risolve soltanto aumentando il numero degli ingressi.</p><p><strong>Per chi sceglie l&#8217;Italia, la vera prova comincia dopo il trasferimento</strong></p><p>L&#8217;Italia continua a essere una destinazione desiderabile. Qualit&#224; della vita, cultura, paesaggio e relazioni sociali rappresentano motivazioni importanti per chi decide di trasferirsi. Per alcuni professionisti il lavoro da remoto rende questa scelta pi&#249; semplice; per altri l&#8217;obiettivo &#232; costruire qui una nuova attivit&#224; o una carriera.</p><p>Ma vivere in Italia &#232; diverso dal trascorrervi qualche mese. Significa confrontarsi con procedure amministrative, fiscalit&#224;, accesso ai servizi, reti professionali e possibilit&#224; di crescita. Il fascino iniziale pu&#242; convincere a partire; le condizioni concrete determinano se vale la pena restare.</p><p>&#200; una distinzione importante anche per i piccoli comuni che vogliono attrarre nuovi abitanti. Contare trasferimenti, acquisti immobiliari o presenze temporanee non basta a dimostrare che una comunit&#224; stia tornando a crescere. Bisogna capire chi si stabilisce davvero, quali attivit&#224; sviluppa e quali condizioni trova per costruire una vita sostenibile.</p><p>Il rapporto Moressa non &#232; uno studio sugli expat e non sarebbe corretto presentarlo come tale. Ma invita a una riflessione che riguarda direttamente chi sceglie l&#8217;Italia: un Paese non diventa attrattivo soltanto perch&#233; qualcuno desidera viverci. Lo diventa quando sa offrire opportunit&#224; proporzionate alle competenze e alle aspirazioni delle persone.</p><p>Forse dovremmo smettere di ragionare soltanto su quante braccia ci servono e cominciare a domandarci quanti talenti stiamo lasciando andare, sia attraverso le frontiere in uscita sia attraverso le opportunit&#224; mancate di chi entra.</p><p>Perch&#233; convincere qualcuno a venire in Italia pu&#242; essere relativamente facile. Offrirgli buone ragioni per restare, e magari convincere qualche giovane italiano a non partire, &#232; una sfida decisamente pi&#249; impegnativa.</p><p><strong>Per approfondire:</strong> il rapporto tra aspettative, vita quotidiana e scelta di restare &#232; anche al centro di <em><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/t/nomag-research-books">RELOCALS &#8211; Risultati preliminari</a></em>, pubblicato nella collana <a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/t/nomag-research-books">NOMAG Research Books</a> con <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;ITS ITALY&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:344622313,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eNZL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4b50877-819b-4618-9683-a9f591dd5687_106x86.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8c65a257-2d40-4454-9101-823220d6760a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> e <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;We the Italians&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:18144178,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f91058c4-842f-407e-9cf3-5b760d66b78a_1256x1256.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;59be66a9-7aba-4d88-bc98-7ff4952e0e8d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>. La ricerca riguarda una categoria specifica di persone trasferite dall&#8217;estero che raccontano l&#8217;Italia attraverso la propria esperienza. L&#8217;abstract &#232; disponibile gratuitamente, mentre il rapporto completo &#232; accessibile agli abbonati ed &#232; disponibile anche su Amazon.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prima di attirare investitori, proviamo a rendere i paesi abitabili. Anche socialmente.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Roma, abbiamo portato l&#8217;esperienza di ITS Italy e una convinzione: un territorio non torna a vivere perch&#233; qualcuno ci compra una casa.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/prima-di-attirare-investitori-proviamo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/prima-di-attirare-investitori-proviamo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matteo Cerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:48:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1728149798832-cc4d0ad6f145?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyfHxpdGFsaWFuJTIwcGlhenphfGVufDB8fHx8MTc5MTkwNjA5M3ww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@dylanhcs">Dylan Hill</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>L&#8217;Italia &#232; probabilmente uno dei Paesi pi&#249; attrattivi (su carta almeno) per chi vuole cercare uno stile di vita migliore. Abbiamo trasformato paesaggi, architettura, gastronomia e stile di vita in un prodotto internazionale di straordinario successo. Molto meno frequentemente, per&#242;, ci chiediamo che cosa succeda quando qualcuno accetta davvero il nostro invito, acquista una casa e decide di fermarsi.</p><p>&#200; il tema che abbiamo portato al secondo incontro di Governanza, organizzato a Roma grazie all&#8217;impegno di Richard Harris, al quale va un ringraziamento non formale. Da tempo Richard lavora, anche attraverso PIAZZER e le iniziative sviluppate a Grosseto, per costruire strumenti e occasioni che facilitino gli incontri tra persone. &#200; un lavoro sperimentale, non privo di difficolt&#224;, ma proprio per questo meritevole di attenzione: prova a intervenire sul funzionamento delle comunit&#224; anzich&#233; limitarsi a celebrare la loro importanza.</p><p>Il contributo di ITS Italy &#232; partito da un&#8217;esperienza imprenditoriale concreta. Da anni accompagniamo persone e investimenti verso l&#8217;Italia, con una crescente attenzione a chi desidera trasferirsi stabilmente o trascorrere nel nostro Paese una parte significativa dell&#8217;anno. Attraverso le attivit&#224; editoriali di NOMAG e ITS Journal raccontiamo questi fenomeni, mentre il lavoro immobiliare e di servizi ci mette quotidianamente a confronto con ci&#242; che accade dopo il trasferimento.</p><p><strong>Ed &#232; proprio quel dopo che spesso manca nella narrazione italiana.</strong></p><p>Quando un piccolo comune perde progressivamente scuole, servizi sanitari, esercizi commerciali e luoghi di aggregazione, non perde soltanto attivit&#224; economiche. Cambiano anche le condizioni sociali della vita quotidiana. I residenti storici possono sentirsi abbandonati, i nuovi arrivati possono rimanere estranei alla comunit&#224; e gli immigrati economici, che pure contribuiscono al funzionamento del territorio, rischiano di essere percepiti come un problema anzich&#233; come una risorsa.</p><p>La situazione diventa particolarmente paradossale quando lo stesso territorio viene contemporaneamente promosso all&#8217;estero come destinazione ideale per una nuova vita.</p><p>Durante l&#8217;incontro abbiamo raccontato esperienze osservate direttamente da ITS Italy. In Puglia sono nate occasioni di scambio linguistico fra ragazzi immigrati e residenti. In Maremma piccoli incontri informali hanno permesso a persone di nazionalit&#224; e provenienze differenti di conoscersi, spesso per la prima volta, dopo avere condiviso per anni lo stesso territorio.</p><p>Non sono iniziative sufficienti, da sole, a invertire lo spopolamento o a risolvere i problemi economici e sociali di un comune. Ma mostrano una direzione: le relazioni possono essere ricostruite anche attraverso interventi piccoli, accessibili e ripetibili, capaci di coinvolgere chi normalmente rimane ai margini.</p><p>Un altro esempio riguarda il progetto di riapertura dell&#8217;ultimo negozio di Buriano, in Maremma. Dal punto di vista imprenditoriale si tratta di valutare costi, ricavi, servizi e sostenibilit&#224;. Dal punto di vista territoriale, invece, significa domandarsi se un&#8217;attivit&#224; di prossimit&#224; possa restituire ai residenti anche una ragione per frequentare uno spazio comune, incontrarsi e sviluppare relazioni quotidiane.</p><p>La distinzione &#232; fondamentale: non si sostiene un&#8217;attivit&#224; economicamente insostenibile semplicemente perch&#233; &#232; socialmente desiderabile. Occorre cercare un modello nel quale le due dimensioni possano rafforzarsi.</p><p>&#200; questo il significato dell&#8217;approccio <em>for profit, for good</em> che abbiamo illustrato a Roma: l&#8217;impresa pu&#242; perseguire un risultato economico e contemporaneamente contribuire a creare valore sociale. Non &#232; automaticamente cos&#236;, ma &#232; una possibilit&#224; sulla quale vale la pena lavorare.</p><p><strong>Il confronto con gli altri interventi ha aggiunto due questioni decisive.</strong></p><p>Lorenzo Benassi ha richiamato il concetto dei terzi luoghi, introdotto dal sociologo Ray Oldenburg, per descrivere gli spazi di relazione che non coincidono con la casa o il lavoro. Nel suo intervento ha mostrato come perfino citt&#224; ricche di iniziative culturali e spazi pubblici, come Bologna, rischino di perdere le occasioni di socialit&#224; libera, sostituendole con attivit&#224; sempre pi&#249; programmate e frequentate da gruppi relativamente omogenei.</p><p>Luca Verzichelli ha invece affrontato il problema della governance: il progressivo indebolimento dei corpi intermedi, la difficolt&#224; di costruire coalizioni sociali e la mancanza di figure capaci di trasformare visioni politiche e sperimentazioni in interventi amministrativamente ed economicamente sostenibili.</p><p>Sono due riflessioni che dialogano direttamente con la nostra esperienza. Recuperare un immobile non significa recuperare un luogo di incontro; organizzare un evento non significa costruire una comunit&#224;; annunciare un programma non significa possedere la capacit&#224; di realizzarlo.</p><p>A questa discussione vogliamo aggiungere un elemento che deriva dalle nostre ricerche NOMAG Research Books, recentemente presentate a Roma.</p><p>La prima, <em>Digital Nomad: finalmente anche in Italia&#8230; almeno per un po&#8217;</em>, basata su 1.056 risposte, mostra che molte persone internazionalmente mobili cercano servizi, abitazioni adeguate, collegamenti e condizioni per una vita quotidiana funzionante, ben oltre la retorica del laptop davanti al mare.</p><p>La seconda, <em>Il vero effetto delle case a 1 euro</em>, invita a distinguere il successo comunicativo di un&#8217;iniziativa immobiliare dai suoi effetti reali: acquisti, recupero degli edifici, utilizzo delle abitazioni e nuovi residenti non sono la stessa cosa.</p><p>La terza, <em>RELOCALS</em>, ancora nella fase dei risultati preliminari, osserva il rapporto fra persone arrivate dall&#8217;estero e Italia, anche attraverso la prospettiva di chi racconta professionalmente il nostro Paese. Il 65% dei primi partecipanti dichiara di non essere mai stato coinvolto da enti, organizzazioni o imprese italiane. Un risultato esplorativo che non autorizza generalizzazioni, ma suggerisce una domanda: quante competenze, relazioni internazionali ed esperienze stiamo trascurando nelle comunit&#224; dove queste persone gi&#224; vivono?</p><p>Il problema, dunque, non consiste semplicemente nel convincere pi&#249; persone a trasferirsi. Consiste nel comprendere che cosa possa trasformare un arrivo in una presenza positiva e duratura, per chi arriva e per chi gi&#224; abita il territorio.</p><p>Da qui potrebbe nascere anche una proposta operativa. Amministrazioni, imprese, biblioteche, universit&#224; e associazioni potrebbero collaborare alla creazione di spazi e servizi accessibili durante tutto l&#8217;anno, verificandone non soltanto la partecipazione agli eventi, ma l&#8217;utilizzo quotidiano, la continuit&#224; economica e la capacit&#224; di coinvolgere gruppi che normalmente non interagiscono.</p><p>Non esiste ancora un modello universale. Peraltro, durante il nostro intervento abbiamo riconosciuto apertamente l&#8217;incertezza che accompagna questi tentativi. Ma proprio questa incertezza dovrebbe incoraggiare sperimentazioni misurabili, anzich&#233; nuove promesse di rigenerazione prive di una verifica dei risultati.</p><p>Con RELOCALS intendiamo proseguire questo lavoro anche nel 2027, attraverso incontri in diverse citt&#224; italiane, coinvolgendo biblioteche, istituzioni, spazi professionali e comunit&#224; internazionali. Sarebbe interessante utilizzare alcune tappe anche per mettere a confronto i progetti di Governanza con esperienze territoriali concrete.</p><p>Ringraziamo quindi Richard Harris per l&#8217;iniziativa, Lorenzo Benassi, Luca Verzichelli e gli altri interlocutori per il contributo alla discussione. L&#8217;invito &#232; continuare, passando progressivamente dal confronto alla sperimentazione condivisa.</p><p>Perch&#233; il punto non &#232; rendere i piccoli comuni pi&#249; attraenti per chi vuole comprare una casa. &#200; renderli luoghi nei quali le persone possano scegliere di vivere. Se riusciremo a farlo, anche gli investimenti avranno ragioni molto pi&#249; solide per arrivare e rimanere.</p><p><strong>Guarda il video integrale di Governanza:</strong> </p><div id="youtube2-2h_JnoWSh2M" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;2h_JnoWSh2M&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2h_JnoWSh2M?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/p/litalia-vista-da-chi-arriva-tre-ricerche">Leggi le tre ricerche NOMAG Research Books (abstract gratuiti) </a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/perks">Le versioni digitali integrali per gli abbonati</a></strong></p><p><strong>Proposte e partecipazione a RELOCALS 2027:</strong> <a href="mailto:info@nomag.media">info@nomag.media</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[La Carta di Erice: venticinque comuni, tante buone idee. Ma da lunedì, per chi ci vive, cosa cambia?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sindaci ed esperti si sono confrontati su scuole, sanit&#224;, trasporti, lavoro e ripopolamento. Non sono mancate esperienze concrete, dalla gestione collettiva dei terreni alle microimprese locali. Ma...]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/la-carta-di-erice-venticinque-comuni</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/la-carta-di-erice-venticinque-comuni</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:41:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EN_8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27351260-98f8-4e1d-9ca6-9fdce4ac80e6_1408x1016.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EN_8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27351260-98f8-4e1d-9ca6-9fdce4ac80e6_1408x1016.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Siamo anche diventati abbastanza bravi a individuare i problemi, a immaginare soluzioni e a sottoscrivere documenti programmatici. Pi&#249; complicato, evidentemente, &#232; fare in modo che tutto questo cambi qualcosa nella vita delle persone che quei territori li abitano davvero.</p><p>&#200; con questa curiosit&#224;, e con una certa prudenza, che vale la pena guardare alla Carta di Erice, sottoscritta simbolicamente l&#8217;11 ottobre al termine del Sicily B-Fest, iniziativa della rete siciliana dei Borghi pi&#249; belli d&#8217;Italia. Venticinque comuni hanno avviato un percorso comune per affrontare spopolamento, difficolt&#224; economiche e progressiva perdita di servizi.</p><p>La notizia non &#232; soltanto la firma. Secondo il <a href="https://comune.erice.tp.it/it/news/2054735">resoconto pubblicato dal Comune di Erice il 12 ottobre</a>, il testo definitivo dovrebbe essere completato entro dieci giorni e successivamente sottoposto alle amministrazioni della rete. Dunque, per ora, siamo davanti a un impegno politico e programmatico, non a un piano operativo gi&#224; approvato e finanziato.</p><p><strong>Non soltanto parole: alcune esperienze esistono gi&#224;</strong></p><p>Durante gli incontri sono state presentate iniziative che meritano attenzione. A Troina si &#232; parlato di 4.000 ettari restituiti alla collettivit&#224; e affidati a un&#8217;impresa agro-silvo-pastorale. Nelle Madonie sono state illustrate esperienze di associazioni fondiarie, attraverso le quali proprietari diversi possono coordinare la gestione di terreni altrimenti difficili da valorizzare.</p><p>A Buccheri, il progetto IDDE punta sulle competenze e sulle attivit&#224; produttive femminili. Sono stati richiamati anche interventi di recupero degli immobili nei centri storici, progetti che collegano scuole e territori e iniziative rivolte ai nomadi digitali, come BorghiVivi.</p><p>Sono esempi concreti, almeno nella loro impostazione, perch&#233; cercano di intervenire su risorse, attivit&#224; economiche e bisogni riconoscibili. Non sappiamo per&#242;, dal solo resoconto dell&#8217;evento, quanti posti di lavoro abbiano generato, quali risultati economici abbiano raggiunto o quante persone abbiano contribuito a trattenere nei territori. E questa differenza conta.</p><p><strong>La domanda che manca troppo spesso</strong></p><p>Per chi vive in uno di questi comuni, la questione &#232; meno astratta di quanto possa apparire nei documenti istituzionali. La strada per raggiungere l&#8217;ospedale migliorer&#224;? Sar&#224; possibile utilizzare un trasporto pubblico affidabile? Una famiglia potr&#224; continuare a mandare i figli a scuola senza organizzare ogni giornata come una spedizione? Ci saranno opportunit&#224; per lavorare, aprire un&#8217;attivit&#224; o semplicemente non essere costretti ad andarsene?</p><p>Sono domande che dovrebbero precedere qualsiasi campagna per attrarre nuovi abitanti.</p><p>Perch&#233; un turista, un acquirente immobiliare, un nomade digitale e un residente stabile non sono la stessa cosa. Possono tutti contribuire all&#8217;economia locale, ma soltanto alcuni costruiscono una presenza continuativa. E anche chi trasferisce formalmente la residenza non necessariamente trova le condizioni per restare a lungo.</p><p><strong>Una Carta che merita di essere misurata</strong></p><p>La Carta di Erice potrebbe diventare davvero utile se i venticinque comuni decidessero di condividere non soltanto principi, ma obiettivi misurabili: quali servizi migliorare, quali immobili recuperare, quali attivit&#224; sostenere, con quali risorse e in quali tempi.</p><p>Sarebbe interessante anche conoscere i risultati delle esperienze gi&#224; presentate, distinguendo le iniziative avviate da quelle ancora da progettare. Non tutto dipende dai sindaci: sanit&#224;, trasporti e molte politiche economiche richiedono decisioni regionali e nazionali. Ma una rete di amministrazioni pu&#242; certamente documentare i bisogni e chiedere interventi verificabili.</p><p>La Carta non va bocciata prima di nascere. Le idee illustrate hanno una loro concretezza e il tentativo di coordinarle &#232; positivo. Sarebbe per&#242; un peccato se, fra qualche mese, l&#8217;unico risultato facilmente consultabile fosse il comunicato della firma.</p><p>La Carta di Erice non ha bisogno di un altro applauso. Ha bisogno di diventare qualcosa che un abitante possa riconoscere nella propria vita quotidiana. Possibilmente prima del prossimo convegno.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empori di paese: quando chiude l’ultimo negozio, cosa rimane?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Un saggio gratuito per i lettori di ITS Journal, per aprire un confronto su commercio, servizi e vita quotidiana nei piccoli centri.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/empori-di-paese-quando-chiude-lultimo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/empori-di-paese-quando-chiude-lultimo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matteo Cerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:56:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HZDC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff265a68a-1f73-4c03-901b-0a23b93bf2eb_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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Poi chiude l&#8217;ultimo alimentari e, per comprare il latte, bisogna prendere la macchina. &#200; una trasformazione che difficilmente entra nelle descrizioni delle destinazioni, ma cambia subito la vita di chi ci abita: ogni piccola necessit&#224; diventa uno spostamento, un&#8217;organizzazione, una richiesta a qualcuno. Il paesaggio rimane; la possibilit&#224; di viverci senza dover continuamente andare altrove si restringe.</p><p>Da questa esperienza nasce <strong>Empori di paese. Contro la desertificazione commerciale nei piccoli centri</strong>, un piccolo saggio (e proposta) che ho scritto (a partire da un caso reale) e che pubblichiamo con ITS Italy. </p><p>Il punto di partenza &#232; la chiusura di un piccolo negozio di alimentari, ultimo esercizio commerciale di una comunit&#224; di circa 150&#8211;200 persone, in un luogo presente sulla mappa dai tempi degli Etruschi. Forse un quarto delle case &#232; abitato stabilmente, met&#224; rimane vuoto e il quarto restante ruota attorno agli affitti brevi, pi&#249; o meno dichiarati. Sono proporzioni indicative, non un censimento, ma raccontano una contraddizione concreta: le case sopravvivono, mentre alcune condizioni essenziali per abitarle scompaiono.</p><p>La proposta &#232; ripartire da un emporio contemporaneo, un piccolo centro polifunzionale nel quale alimentari e beni essenziali possano convivere con servizi pratici, collegamenti con operatori locali e un punto riconoscibile al quale rivolgersi. Ricevere una consegna, organizzare un intervento, trovare informazioni o assistenza pu&#242; avere un valore economico oltre che quotidiano. Quali funzioni riunire dipende per&#242; dal luogo: servono bisogni reali, persone che utilizzino il servizio e un&#8217;organizzazione compatibile con le attivit&#224; svolte.</p><p>&#200; proprio sulla sostenibilit&#224; che il saggio insiste. L&#8217;analisi economica sulla quale abbiamo lavorato ci d&#224; una ragione per procedere, alle condizioni considerate: pi&#249; attivit&#224; possono contribuire a coprire costi comuni e rendere possibile una gestione remunerata. Occorre per&#242; un impegno locale che diventi acquisti, utilizzo regolare e collaborazione concreta. Dire che il negozio &#232; importante serve; sceglierlo per una parte della propria spesa incide sui conti. I visitatori possono allargare la domanda, mentre il presidio deve continuare ad avere senso per i residenti quando la stagione finisce.</p><p>L&#8217;emporio da Far West in copertina, con i cespugli secchi che rotolano, &#232; una provocazione sulle condizioni in cui spesso si finisce per operare: distanze, pochi servizi, domanda discontinua e molte necessit&#224; concentrate su chi tiene aperta una porta. Le condizioni cambiano da paese a paese e da stagione a stagione; ogni progetto deve essere costruito su queste differenze.</p><p><strong>Il PDF completo &#232; gratuito e lo trovate qui sotto.</strong> </p><p>Vorrei che queste venti pagine circolassero e incontrassero residenti, commercianti, possibili gestori, amministratori e persone interessate a contribuire. Leggetelo, condividetelo e, se vi fa pensare a un&#8217;attivit&#224; o a un paese concreto, scrivete a <strong><a href="mailto:info@itsfor.it">info@itsfor.it</a></strong>, con oggetto <strong>Empori di paese</strong>. </p><p>Il passo successivo &#232; capire insieme dove questa proposta possa diventare un&#8217;impresa utile e capace di durare. </p><div class="file-embed-wrapper" data-component-name="FileToDOM"><div class="file-embed-container-reader"><div class="file-embed-container-top"><image class="file-embed-thumbnail" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4bNC!,w_400,h_600,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8680c9a-c088-42b2-95ac-c006c674ee24_992x1586.jpeg"></image><div class="file-embed-details"><div class="file-embed-details-h1">Empori di paese</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">6.27MB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://www.itsjournal.com/api/v1/file/8ff2c531-e1a5-41d1-97a2-b881944e2e9e.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://www.itsjournal.com/api/v1/file/8ff2c531-e1a5-41d1-97a2-b881944e2e9e.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p> </p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.itsjournal.com/p/empori-di-paese-quando-chiude-lultimo?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading ITS Journal! 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Buriano, Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany - a completed village home already producing income.</figcaption></figure></div><p><em><strong>What we&#8217;re really looking for isn&#8217;t another property transaction. It&#8217;s people who want to become part of something we&#8217;ve already begun building.</strong></em></p><p>Six months ago, an American considering the purchase of a &#8364;100,000 home in Italy would have needed approximately $116,850. Today, the very same property would cost around $112,060. That&#8217;s almost $4,800 less, without anybody having to negotiate a single euro off the asking price. British buyers have also benefited: over the same period, the sterling cost of that property has fallen from approximately &#163;87,053 to &#163;84,763, a difference of nearly &#163;2,300. <strong>Currency markets, it seems, have decided to offer a little encouragement to anyone considering a future life in Italy.</strong></p><p>Naturally, exchange rates can move in either direction, and nobody should decide to purchase a property simply because the euro has had a difficult few months. Nevertheless, the figures offer an interesting starting point, particularly for people who have spent years imagining a home in an Italian village without ever quite getting around to investigating what it might actually involve. Which brings us to a perfectly reasonable question: what on earth can you buy in Italy for &#8364;100,000? A crumbling farmhouse? A roofless ruin? A romantic collection of stones requiring three architects, two solicitors, a small army of contractors and an especially cooperative local priest before anyone can safely switch on the electricity?</p><p>Not necessarily. And perhaps this is a good opportunity to explain what ITS Italy actually does, because we&#8217;re not an estate agency, we don&#8217;t sell &#8364;1 fantasies, and the properties we own or develop represent only a fraction of the projects we&#8217;re working on across the country.</p><div><hr></div><h2>In this article</h2><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/1-real-homes-real-places-and-no-were-not-talking-about-1-houses">1. Real homes, real places</a></strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/1-real-homes-real-places-and-no-were-not-talking-about-1-houses"> - what we&#8217;re developing across Italy</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/2-our-portfolio-is-only-a-fraction-of-what-we-actually-do">2. Beyond our portfolio</a></strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/2-our-portfolio-is-only-a-fraction-of-what-we-actually-do"> - how we work with clients and why our projects can save months of unnecessary complications</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/3-from-completed-homes-to-projects-ready-to-begin-finding-a-sensible-way-forward">3. From completed homes to new developments</a></strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/3-from-completed-homes-to-projects-ready-to-begin-finding-a-sensible-way-forward"> - reservations, staged payments, rent-to-buy and practical assistance</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/4-our-ethos-investing-in-places-before-inviting-other-people-to-believe-in-them">4. Our ethos</a></strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/4-our-ethos-investing-in-places-before-inviting-other-people-to-believe-in-them"> - why we invest in communities rather than simply trading properties</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/5-buying-a-home-is-one-thing-moving-to-italy-is-another">5. Moving to Italy</a></strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/5-buying-a-home-is-one-thing-moving-to-italy-is-another"> - immigration, taxation and the practical realities of relocation</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/6-perhaps-the-first-step-isnt-buying-anything-its-having-a-conversation">6. Join us</a></strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/6-perhaps-the-first-step-isnt-buying-anything-its-having-a-conversation"> - how to explore a property, a project or a wider regeneration initiative (plus a sample of our portfolio)</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/7-we-dont-just-work-on-these-questions-we-research-them">7. Research, books and ITS Journal</a></strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/7-we-dont-just-work-on-these-questions-we-research-them"> - our three NOMAG Research Books and a special subscription offer</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/i/219706911/8-corporate-legal-and-regulatory-information">8. Corporate and legal information</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><h2>1. Real homes, real places. And no, we&#8217;re not talking about &#8364;1 houses.</h2><p>Italy&#8217;s famous &#8364;1 house programmes have generated some of the most irresistible international property headlines of recent years. A beautiful medieval village, a handful of abandoned buildings and the suggestion that an entire new life might be available for the price of an espresso. We know the story rather well. In fact, we&#8217;ve researched it extensively and published an entire book about it, <em><strong>Debunking Italy&#8217;s &#8364;1 House Effect</strong></em>, examining what these schemes have actually achieved in terms of property transactions, renovation, new residents and local regeneration.</p><p>There&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with restoring an abandoned property, and we&#8217;ve certainly undertaken our share of complicated renovations. But there&#8217;s a substantial difference between purchasing something for one euro and acquiring a home in which a person can realistically live. What appears to be a bargain can rapidly become a rather expensive exercise in construction management, regulatory compliance and patience. We prefer to begin from a different premise: a home should be a home, a budget should reflect reality, and the process of acquiring or developing a property shouldn&#8217;t become an unexpected second career.</p><p>Over the past five years, ITS Italy has been involved in more than 150 property transactions. Our activities extend across Tuscany, Sardinia, the Marche, Umbria, Sicily and Puglia, with additional projects and opportunities in other regions. Some properties are already finished and habitable, others are currently generating rental income while waiting for their full-time residents, some require only their final finishing touches, and others are re-development projects for which the technical work, planning and relevant authorisations have already been prepared. We aren&#8217;t claiming that every property is available for immediate occupation, or that every project has the same timetable. Quite the opposite: we&#8217;re interested in making those differences clear before somebody decides to become involved.</p><p>Consider <strong>Buriano, in the Tuscan Maremma</strong>, where we&#8217;ve already completed the renovation of a residential property that is currently rented and producing income, with the existing tenancy scheduled to continue until spring 2027. This is not an attractive architectural rendering promising what a building might become. It&#8217;s a completed home, already in use, demonstrating how a property in a small Italian village can have an economic purpose while its eventual owner considers a different future for it. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!325X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f3cfbf-8699-4820-a01f-1632092f2ddf_1576x1044.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!325X!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f3cfbf-8699-4820-a01f-1632092f2ddf_1576x1044.png 424w, 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These aren&#8217;t anonymous buildings collected from online advertisements, but projects whose technical requirements, local circumstances and development possibilities we&#8217;ve already examined. </p><p>In <strong>Ozieri, Sardinia</strong>, meanwhile, we&#8217;re involved with homes at particularly accessible price levels, including properties that are already habitable and may require little more than modest improvements or personalisation. For people who assume that purchasing a home in Italy inevitably involves either a six-figure commitment or a ruin requiring complete reconstruction, these are useful examples of a more practical middle ground.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SPEw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5404ecdd-8717-4456-8230-d9d165930dc0_1918x1278.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SPEw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5404ecdd-8717-4456-8230-d9d165930dc0_1918x1278.png 424w, 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It&#8217;s a particularly interesting example of how an existing property can become part of a wider approach to reactivating a village, rather than simply remaining another underused building. <strong>Umbria</strong> is another significant area of our work, where property development sits alongside broader questions of local services, infrastructure and the potential for new residents and economic activity. We&#8217;re interested not only in finding attractive buildings, but in understanding what makes the surrounding community a place in which people might genuinely want to spend their lives.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XEdF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d7f0efb-8981-41a9-8ed2-1173e4984a9a_2038x1254.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XEdF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d7f0efb-8981-41a9-8ed2-1173e4984a9a_2038x1254.png 424w, 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These territories illustrate both the opportunities and the contradictions of Italy&#8217;s smaller communities: remarkable places, often with extraordinary buildings and comparatively accessible property markets, but also facing demographic, economic and practical challenges that cannot be resolved simply by attracting another international buyer. Mussomeli is among the communities examined in our research into the &#8364;1 house phenomenon, but our interests there and elsewhere on the island extend well beyond those initiatives. We&#8217;re concerned with what happens after the headlines, when properties need to be restored, people need somewhere to live and communities need functioning economic and social relationships.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uCw5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85a6d627-9b03-4ba5-8c49-03e41986c13b_1924x1282.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uCw5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85a6d627-9b03-4ba5-8c49-03e41986c13b_1924x1282.png 424w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Caprarica di Lecce, Puglia - a different kind of residential opportunity, with comfort and quality in mind.</figcaption></figure></div><p>And in <strong>Puglia</strong>, particularly around <strong>Lecce</strong>, our projects include <strong>Caprarica di Lecce</strong>, where we&#8217;ve been developing a more substantial residential opportunity combining contemporary comfort, energy efficiency and a swimming pool. It&#8217;s a useful reminder that our work isn&#8217;t confined to the lowest possible purchase price. Different homes, different budgets and different expectations can all fit within the same approach, provided the project makes sense in its particular context.</p><p>These are examples, not an exhaustive inventory of available properties. They cover a wide range of price brackets, from modest five-figure opportunities to more ambitious residential developments, and their availability and completion status vary. We also have other projects at different stages of preparation in additional parts of Italy. What connects them isn&#8217;t a standardised property product, but our involvement in the places themselves and the work we&#8217;ve already undertaken to make particular opportunities possible.</p><h2>2. Our portfolio is only a fraction of what we actually do.</h2><p>There&#8217;s something important to understand about ITS Italy: the properties we own, directly develop or present within our own portfolio represent only a small part of our overall activity. We&#8217;re continually identifying, preparing and developing projects for clients and alongside them, sometimes participating financially ourselves and sometimes contributing the experience, local knowledge, technical coordination and operational groundwork required to turn somebody else&#8217;s ambition into a viable project. In many cases, the property never becomes part of our own portfolio at all. Our work is not measured simply by the number of houses available for sale, and our ability to collaborate with somebody doesn&#8217;t necessarily depend on whether we already own the building they have in mind.</p><p>But there&#8217;s a particular reason why we&#8217;re pleased to show people the properties and developments in which we&#8217;ve already invested. These are opportunities where much of the difficult preliminary work has been undertaken: identifying suitable buildings, examining their circumstances, developing architectural and technical plans, dealing with relevant approvals, understanding the local environment, assessing the works and establishing relationships with professionals and contractors. In some cases, we&#8217;ve already completed the whole process and brought the property into productive use. In others, we&#8217;ve prepared the project so that its next stage can begin with a far clearer understanding of what is involved.</p><p>For somebody approaching the Italian property market from London, New York or elsewhere, this can mean avoiding months of research, negotiations, bureaucracy and the rather exhausting experience of assembling an entirely unfamiliar team of people. We certainly aren&#8217;t suggesting that purchasing property in Italy requires no independent due diligence, that every authorisation is identical or that a development can never encounter an unexpected complication. But there is a considerable difference between starting with a building about which you know almost nothing and joining a project in which somebody has already invested substantial time, money and professional effort.</p><p>We have done a great deal of that work ourselves, and we&#8217;ve learnt lessons along the way, occasionally rather expensively. We&#8217;d prefer our future partners and clients to benefit from that experience rather than repeat every mistake independently. And if none of the properties in our existing portfolio is quite right for you, there&#8217;s no reason the conversation should end there: a significant part of what we do involves creating or developing projects with people who have their own needs, budgets, ideas and ambitions.</p><p>Our portfolio, in other words, isn&#8217;t the limit of what we can do. It&#8217;s a selection of cases where we&#8217;re already prepared, where we&#8217;ve made an investment of our own and where somebody joining us may be able to save months of unnecessary headaches.</p><h2>3. From completed homes to projects ready to begin: finding a sensible way forward.</h2><p>Not everybody considering a home in Italy is at the same stage of life, and there&#8217;s no particular reason everybody should follow the same purchasing process. Some people want a property that&#8217;s already finished and available for occupation; others would prefer a home generating rental income while they organise a future move. Some are happy to undertake limited finishing work, particularly if that allows them to personalise the property, while others are interested in a project where the technical plans and necessary approvals have already been prepared and work can proceed according to an agreed programme.</p><p>This is the range of situations in which we operate. With our own developments, our objective is to have the project properly assessed and documented before asking somebody else to become involved. Where a property is presented as ready for construction, the relevant approvals, outstanding requirements and scope of works need to be identifiable and verifiable. That preparation is one of the things in which we&#8217;ve already invested, and it allows the next participant to concentrate on understanding the project rather than discovering whether it is feasible in the first place.</p><p>Naturally, some people rather enjoy the idea of buying an abandoned farmhouse, arriving in Italy with a toolbox and spending the next three years negotiating with builders. Television has done a magnificent job of turning that experience into entertainment, and if that&#8217;s genuinely how you&#8217;d like to spend your time, we wish you every success. We&#8217;ve experienced enough of the less entertaining episodes ourselves to know that many people would prefer something rather different. Perhaps you have a business, a family, a demanding job or simply better things to do than devote every holiday to discussing plumbing, windows and the architectural mysteries of a bathroom wall. We live in the real world, where time is valuable and repeatedly solving problems that somebody else has already solved is not necessarily an admirable use of it.</p><p>There&#8217;s also the question of how to finance a project and how quickly to become involved. For selected developments planned for 2027, an initial reservation may begin with &#8364;5,000, subject to the property&#8217;s availability and the terms of the relevant agreement. Some opportunities may allow staged payments or, where appropriate, a rent-to-buy structure, enabling a prospective purchaser to approach ownership gradually under clearly documented conditions. Not every property lends itself to these arrangements, and we don&#8217;t believe people should commit money before understanding exactly what they&#8217;re agreeing to.</p><p>Nor does every potential participant necessarily want a home for themselves. Some may be interested in working with us on a property intended for somebody else, while others may wish to explore a wider regeneration initiative in a community where we&#8217;re already active. These possibilities require different contractual structures, risk assessments and, where relevant, regulatory checks. We&#8217;re not presenting them as universally available financial products or promising returns. We&#8217;re simply interested in exploring responsible ways for people to participate in projects that might otherwise remain beyond their immediate reach.</p><p>The practical relationship doesn&#8217;t necessarily end when a property is completed or transferred, either. Owning a home in Italy while living abroad can involve organising utilities, maintaining the property, arranging local services, supervising finishing works or dealing with administrative matters that are much easier when somebody familiar with the place can help. Where agreed, our local relationships and project activities can provide or coordinate practical assistance, while appropriately qualified independent professionals undertake legal, technical, fiscal and other regulated work. We don&#8217;t promise to eliminate every difficulty, but we do believe that working with people already established in the community is preferable to trying to manage everything from several thousand miles away.</p><h2>4. Our ethos: investing in places before inviting other people to believe in them.</h2><p>One of the most persistent misunderstandings about Italy&#8217;s smaller communities is that their problems can be solved simply by finding buyers for empty buildings. There are plenty of inexpensive houses throughout the country, and some are inexpensive for perfectly understandable reasons. A village with few services, limited economic opportunities and a steadily declining population doesn&#8217;t automatically become a thriving community because somebody from abroad purchases a second home there. Property transactions can be useful, but they&#8217;re not the same thing as regeneration, and we think the distinction deserves considerably more attention than it usually receives.</p><p>Our approach begins with the place rather than the individual building. We look for communities where we believe there are opportunities worth developing, perhaps because of their location, existing social fabric, entrepreneurial potential, underused buildings, local services or the possibility of attracting new residents who could contribute to everyday life. Sometimes our involvement begins with a residential renovation; sometimes the opportunity is a small business, a service, a productive use for an existing space or a combination of different activities. We believe housing, economic life and community relationships need to be considered together, particularly in villages where the disappearance of even one shop or essential service can have consequences far beyond the business itself.</p><p>We&#8217;ve put our own money into these places, but money is only part of the commitment. We&#8217;ve also invested time, work, relationships, professional expertise and reputation, accepting risks that are far easier to discuss in a presentation than to confront in practice. Not every idea works, not every project progresses exactly as expected and not every community will develop in the direction we hope. That&#8217;s precisely why we believe credibility begins with doing something ourselves rather than merely suggesting that somebody else should take the risk.</p><p>We aren&#8217;t particularly interested in creating places that look wonderful in August and fall silent for the remaining eleven months. Nor do we expect every person who joins one of our projects to relocate permanently from day one. People have commitments, families, careers and different ways of approaching major life changes. Someone might begin with a few months in Italy each year, perhaps while continuing to work remotely, and gradually discover whether a deeper connection makes sense. What matters is the possibility of <strong>becoming part of a community rather than simply consuming its appearance.</strong></p><p>That&#8217;s what we stand for: real homes rather than property fantasies, communities rather than isolated transactions, investment accompanied by responsibility, realistic budgets and gradual participation rather than financial recklessness. We believe in professional competence, transparency about difficulties and relationships that continue beyond the completion of a contract. Above all, we believe the people involved matter more than the immediate transaction, because the future of a village depends on what happens after the property has been bought.</p><p>We&#8217;re not looking for everybody. We&#8217;re looking for people who recognise something in these places, who understand that village life isn&#8217;t a permanent holiday and who might want to contribute, in different ways and at different levels, to the future of communities in which we&#8217;ve already chosen to invest.</p><h2>5. Buying a home is one thing. Moving to Italy is another.</h2><p>There&#8217;s another subject we would rather discuss before somebody makes a major decision, especially if they&#8217;re arriving from the United States or the United Kingdom: the legal and fiscal realities of living across borders. Property ownership and immigration status are two entirely separate questions, and buying a home in Italy does not automatically confer the right to live here permanently. British citizens are now subject to the relevant rules applying to non-EU nationals, just as Americans are, and the requirements for somebody retiring, working remotely, operating a business or relocating with family members may be very different.</p><p>Taxation requires equally careful consideration. Depending on where you currently live, how long you intend to spend in Italy, the sources of your income and the way your personal or business affairs are organised, moving may create obligations in more than one jurisdiction. Foreign pensions, rental income, overseas employment, remote working, business ownership and the possible application of Italian tax provisions deserve individual analysis. Some immigration routes or fiscal arrangements may be attractive to particular people, but eligibility cannot be assumed, and there is no universal solution suitable for every prospective resident.</p><p>We don&#8217;t provide regulated immigration, legal, financial or tax advice ourselves, and we have no intention of pretending otherwise. Where appropriate, we facilitate introductions to independent, suitably qualified professionals who can assess the relevant questions, including conveyancing, notarial matters, tax planning, residence permits and other specialist requirements - and we coordinate them, because dealing with more than one could be even more confusing. We can also help identify the practical issues that need addressing in connection with a particular property or local project, without replacing the professional advice each person should obtain independently.</p><p>It might not sound quite as romantic as an afternoon spent imagining long lunches beneath an olive tree, but we believe understanding these matters before making a commitment is considerably more useful than discovering an unexpected problem six months later. Our objective is to help people approach an Italian life as something real and sustainable, rather than a beautiful idea that becomes unnecessarily complicated once the paperwork begins.</p><h2>6. Perhaps the first step isn&#8217;t buying anything. It&#8217;s having a conversation.</h2><p>If you&#8217;ve read this far, perhaps you&#8217;re interested in a particular region, a completed property, a home that could generate income before you relocate, or a development project where some of the more complicated work has already been undertaken. Perhaps you&#8217;d like to explore a rent-to-buy arrangement, understand whether a relatively modest initial commitment could allow you to plan a future purchase, or discuss a project that doesn&#8217;t yet exist within our current portfolio. Or perhaps the aspect that interests you most is participating in the wider regeneration of a community, rather than acquiring an Italian home for yourself.</p><p>We don&#8217;t expect everybody to arrive with the same budget, circumstances or ambitions, and we&#8217;re certainly not going to pretend that every opportunity is suitable for everybody. What we can offer is a conversation about the projects we&#8217;re actually working on, the communities where we&#8217;re involved and the possible ways of developing something together. Sometimes the right answer may be one of the properties we&#8217;ve already prepared; sometimes it may be an entirely different project, shaped around your objectives and the opportunities available in a particular place.</p><p>You can write to <strong><a href="mailto:info@itsfor.it">info@itsfor.it</a></strong> or simply leave a comment below this article, telling us what interests you. Perhaps mention the type of property or project you&#8217;re considering, whether you&#8217;re thinking about a future relocation, occasional use or something more entrepreneurial, and which aspects of Italian life appeal to you. We&#8217;ll respond with information about relevant activities and opportunities where available; detailed personal or financial matters can then be discussed privately rather than in a public comments section.</p><p>The exchange rate may have provided a useful reason to reconsider the idea of owning a home in Italy, but we hope it won&#8217;t be the only reason you get in touch. We&#8217;ve already invested our own resources in places where we believe something worthwhile can happen, and we&#8217;re interested in meeting people who might want to help shape that future. We&#8217;re not offering an imaginary postcard version of Italy; we&#8217;re inviting people to explore the real one, with its opportunities, imperfections and occasionally infuriating complications included.</p><h3>Explore Some of Our Current Opportunities in Italy</h3><p>Curious about what we&#8217;re working on? Download a selection of properties and development projects from across Italy, including completed homes, income-producing properties and projects ready for their next chapter - sorry this edition does not include our extensive Sicilian portfolio.</p><p><strong>This is just a sample, not our full portfolio.</strong> We&#8217;re constantly identifying and developing new opportunities, both independently and alongside our clients, and we update this selection every month.</p><div class="file-embed-wrapper" data-component-name="FileToDOM"><div class="file-embed-container-reader"><div class="file-embed-container-top"><image class="file-embed-thumbnail" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MAk-!,w_400,h_600,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83ba1df7-1953-4150-97ab-6222a6fc1520_2114x1308.png"></image><div class="file-embed-details"><div class="file-embed-details-h1">Its Italy Property Portfolio - September 2026</div><div class="file-embed-details-h2">8.05MB &#8729; PDF file</div></div><a class="file-embed-button wide" href="https://www.itsjournal.com/api/v1/file/0117af96-cdac-45fc-91e1-7976da0d17cc.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div><a class="file-embed-button narrow" href="https://www.itsjournal.com/api/v1/file/0117af96-cdac-45fc-91e1-7976da0d17cc.pdf"><span class="file-embed-button-text">Download</span></a></div></div><p>Don&#8217;t see what you&#8217;re looking for? Leave a comment below or email <strong><a href="mailto:info@itsfor.it">info@itsfor.it</a></strong>. We may already be working on something that fits your plans.</p><h2>7. We don&#8217;t just work on these questions. We research them.</h2><p>Our involvement in housing, relocation and village regeneration isn&#8217;t limited to individual projects. Through ITS Journal, NOMAG Research Books and collaborations including We the Italians, we&#8217;re also interested in understanding the wider economic, demographic and social questions that shape the future of Italy&#8217;s smaller communities. Practical experience gives us a particular perspective, but it doesn&#8217;t automatically make our assumptions correct, and we believe research should challenge the ideas of practitioners just as practitioners should challenge assumptions that look convincing on paper.</p><p>In September 2026, we presented the first three volumes of NOMAG Research Books at the Centro Studi Americani in Rome. The collection addresses three related questions: who might come to Italy, what happens when international attention turns towards its housing, and how people&#8217;s relationships with the country change after they actually begin living here.</p><p><em>AT LAST, ITALY&#8230; AT LEAST TEMPORARILY</em> examines digital nomads and internationally mobile professionals, drawing on 1,056 survey responses to investigate their expectations, professional circumstances and relationship with potential destinations. </p><p><em>DEBUNKING ITALY&#8217;S &#8364;1 HOUSE EFFECT</em> explores one of the country&#8217;s most celebrated international property stories, looking beyond the headlines to examine transactions, renovations, housing markets and the actual arrival of new residents.</p><p><em>RELOCALS &#8212; PRELIMINARY FINDINGS</em>, developed with ITS Italy and We the Italians, examines the experiences of people who have moved to Italy from abroad and the changes that occur when a temporary adventure gradually becomes a longer-term life.</p><p>Some of those preliminary findings deserve attention. Among respondents to RELOCALS, 64.1% hadn&#8217;t originally expected to remain in Italy for as long as they did, while 75.7% say living in the country has changed the way they describe it to other people. Perhaps most strikingly, 65% report never having been involved by an Italian organisation or institution. It&#8217;s an important reminder that attracting international attention is one thing; understanding, involving and retaining people who have already arrived is another.</p><p>These publications aren&#8217;t property brochures, and we don&#8217;t regard them as evidence that every initiative we undertake will succeed. They&#8217;re research projects intended to contribute to a wider discussion about mobility, housing, population change and the practical conditions required to make smaller communities viable. 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Individual properties, development activities and regeneration initiatives may involve participated Italian companies, other identified project companies, property owners or contractual counterparties, whose precise legal interests and responsibilities must be established through the relevant transaction documentation. UK incorporation does not exempt any activity from applicable Italian law or the regulatory requirements of other relevant jurisdictions.</p><p><strong>Real estate and development activities.</strong> ITS Italy does not hold itself out as a regulated estate agency or real estate brokerage. Its activities include selected proprietary property interests, property development, operational collaboration and community-regeneration projects. Where activities constitute regulated real estate mediation or require specific licences or authorisations, they must be undertaken by appropriately authorised persons. The legal characterisation of an activity depends on what is actually performed, irrespective of the terminology used in promotional or editorial materials.</p><p><strong>Properties, availability and technical documentation.</strong> All references to properties, indicative budget ranges, habitability, rental income, occupancy arrangements, renovation status, planning approvals and expected completion dates are provided for general information and require individual verification. An approved project, a completed technical design and an immediately executable building programme are not necessarily equivalent. The specific legal, technical and administrative status of each property, including any outstanding approvals or formalities, must be verified from the relevant documentation. No guarantee is made concerning future rental income, appreciation, vacancy dates, completion schedules or the absence of unexpected construction costs.</p><p><strong>Reservations, payments and alternative purchase arrangements.</strong> Any reservation deposit, including the illustrative &#8364;5,000 initial commitment mentioned in this article, is subject to the availability of the relevant project and the provisions of an appropriate written agreement. Purchase prices, payment schedules, refund and cancellation rights, consequences of withdrawal, taxes and additional transaction costs must be disclosed and reviewed before any payment. Staged-payment or rent-to-buy arrangements are considered individually and are not automatically available for all properties. Nothing in this article constitutes an offer of regulated consumer credit, mortgage finance or other financial services.</p><p><strong>Investment participation and financial risks.</strong> References to investing alongside ITS Italy, collaborating on a development project, participating in property intended for other occupants or supporting wider community-regeneration initiatives are general descriptions of possible commercial relationships, not offers of securities, collective investment interests or other regulated investment products. Any specific arrangement requires independent legal and regulatory assessment, suitable contractual documentation, clear identification of risks and compliance with applicable laws in the relevant jurisdictions. Property development and associated activities can involve delays, additional expenses, illiquidity, market uncertainty and partial or total loss of invested capital. No return, income, capital protection or increase in property value is promised.</p><p><strong>Practical assistance and professional services.</strong> Where specifically agreed, ITS Italy or the relevant project participants may provide or coordinate non-regulated practical assistance concerning local administration, property maintenance, project coordination and relationships with local service providers. Such services are not automatically included in a purchase or development arrangement, and their scope, availability, duration and cost must be confirmed separately. Legal advice, conveyancing, notarial services, architectural or engineering certification, regulated tax advice, financial advice, immigration advice or representation, and other reserved professional activities are provided, where required, by appropriately qualified and authorised independent professionals operating under their own professional responsibilities and engagement terms. Coordination or introduction to such professionals does not replace independent due diligence or guarantee particular outcomes.</p><p><strong>Immigration and cross-border taxation.</strong> The acquisition or ownership of Italian real estate does not automatically confer a right of residence, permission to work, a visa, Italian citizenship or entitlement to favourable tax treatment. Non-EU citizens, including British and American purchasers, should seek independent advice concerning their immigration status, intended period of stay, work arrangements and personal circumstances. Tax obligations may arise in Italy and other jurisdictions depending on residence, foreign income, pensions, business activities, property holdings and applicable domestic law or international tax agreements. No specific immigration outcome, residence permit or fiscal benefit is represented as guaranteed.</p><p><strong>Currency comparisons.</strong> Exchange-rate illustrations are based on euro reference rates for 9 April and 9 October 2026 and are provided for general information only. They exclude bank charges, conversion spreads, financial transaction costs and other expenses, and do not represent executable foreign-exchange quotations. Exchange rates can change materially, potentially increasing or reducing the amount required to complete a transaction.</p><p><strong>Editorial relationships and commercial disclosure.</strong> ITS Journal is an editorial initiative associated with ITS Italy. NOMAG Research Books is published by Nomag Media Ltd, with the relevant partners and co-producers identified within the individual publications. This article combines editorial material, research references and promotional discussion of activities associated with ITS Italy and should be read accordingly. It is not independent financial or investment research, regulated professional advice or a guarantee of commercial outcomes. Digital book access, subscriber benefits, promotional prices and renewal arrangements are subject to the applicable ITS Journal and Substack subscription terms.</p><p><strong>No binding offer.</strong> Nothing in this publication constitutes a binding property sale offer, investment solicitation, regulated financial promotion, financing commitment or agreement to supply professional services. Any transaction, collaboration or investment arrangement is subject to the relevant property&#8217;s availability, satisfactory due diligence, applicable legal requirements and formal written agreements between the appropriate parties. Readers should seek independent legal, financial, tax and technical advice before making significant commitments.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Borgo Is Romantic. But the Municipality Needs a Bus.]]></title><description><![CDATA[More tourists do not mean more residents. Selling a borgo is not the same as saving a small town. 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Il comune ha bisogno dell&#8217;autobus.</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">Il turismo nei &#8216;borghi&#8217; cresce, mentre molti piccoli comuni continuano a perdere abitanti. Il rischio non &#232; promuovere le destinazioni, ma lasciare che siano le logiche della promozione turistica a d&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">4 days ago &#183; 1 like &#183; Matteo Cerri</div></a></div><p>Have you noticed that nobody seems to talk about small municipalities in Italy any more? They are all <em>borghi</em> now. <em>I Borghi pi&#249; belli d&#8217;Italia</em>, <em>Borghi Autentici</em>, welcoming villages, hidden gems, places to discover, rediscover, fall in love with and, preferably, photograph at sunset.</p><p>And that&#8217;s perfectly fine. <em>Borgo</em> is a wonderfully romantic word. It works beautifully in tourism marketing, conjuring up cobbled streets, ancient traditions, picturesque squares and golden-hour views. <em>Comune</em>, on the other hand, is terribly prosaic. It brings to mind schools, buses, roads, health centres, planning permissions, municipal offices and public services. Hardly the stuff of an award-winning Instagram campaign.</p><p>There is a reason for this. <strong>You go on holiday to a borgo. You live in a municipality.</strong> And while the two can coexist perfectly well, they are certainly not interchangeable.</p><p>The problem begins when we allow tourism promotion to shape not only the story we tell about these destinations, but also the narrative surrounding their regeneration and repopulation. Because whoever defines the problem often ends up influencing the solutions. And when the narrative is largely driven by tourism operators, consultants and destination-marketing specialists, it is only natural that the proposed tools come from the tourism industry: events, advertising campaigns, experiences, accommodation and visitor attraction.</p><p>All perfectly legitimate. Often genuinely useful. But not necessarily answers to depopulation.</p><p><strong>More tourists, fewer residents: the paradox in numbers</strong></p><p>Tourism is growing, including in Italy&#8217;s smaller towns. According to figures released by the <a href="https://www.ministeroturismo.gov.it/forum-internazionale-del-turismo-santanche-puntare-su-piccoli-comuni-per-sostenere-continua-crescita-del-settore/">Italian Ministry of Tourism in January 2026</a>, small municipalities recorded a 6.85% increase in overnight stays and a 7.86% increase in tourist arrivals in 2025, accounting for approximately 20% of the country&#8217;s overnight stays.</p><p>Italian tourism as a whole had already reached a historic record in 2024, with <a href="https://www.istat.it/comunicato-stampa/i-flussi-turistici-anno-2024/">466.2 million overnight stays</a>, up 4.2% on the previous year.</p><p>Meanwhile, Italy&#8217;s national statistics institute, Istat, tells a rather different story about the people actually living in these places.</p><p>Between 2014 and 2024, Italy&#8217;s inland areas lost approximately 700,000 inhabitants, equivalent to 5% of their population. In 2024 alone, almost six out of ten municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants recorded a population decline, with a combined net loss of around 15,000 residents.</p><p>These statistics concern geographical categories and periods that do not perfectly overlap, so they certainly do not prove that tourism causes depopulation. What they do demonstrate is something rather important: <strong>the success of tourism promotion cannot be used as a proxy for the success of demographic policies.</strong></p><p>Overnight stays can increase without the resident population growing. Tourism revenue can rise while the number of people actually living in a town continues to fall.</p><p>You can have a wonderfully successful destination and a community that is slowly disappearing. Both things can be true at the same time.</p><p><strong>An enormous housing stock. But whom are we restoring it for?</strong></p><p>Let&#8217;s start with housing.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.istat.it/comunicato-stampa/abitazioni-occupate/">Istat&#8217;s latest housing figures</a>, in 2023 Italy had approximately 9.5 million dwellings not occupied by registered residents, representing more than a quarter of the country&#8217;s housing stock.</p><p>This does not mean that all these properties are empty, available or immediately habitable. Many are second homes, others are occupied by people who are not registered residents, and the circumstances vary enormously. Nevertheless, anyone who has spent time exploring Italy&#8217;s smaller municipalities will be familiar with entire buildings standing unused, apartments closed for decades and properties that could be returned to the market with relatively modest refurbishment.</p><p>We do not necessarily need to build more houses. We need ways to restore the homes we already have, make them habitable and, crucially, make them available to people who might actually live in them.</p><p>Tourism can make a significant contribution to that process. A holiday rental may provide the financial incentive to restore a property that would otherwise deteriorate. It can generate employment, income and economic activity. These are real benefits, not something to be dismissed.</p><p>But if incentives, investment opportunities and development strategies increasingly favour visitor accommodation, we should hardly be surprised when investors concentrate on precisely that market.</p><p>And what about someone looking for an apartment for a year because they have found a job locally? A family considering relocation? A young person who cannot afford to buy? A teacher, a nurse or an employee of a local business?</p><p>In many places, they will discover an extraordinarily limited residential rental market, even where apparently unused properties are everywhere.</p><p>We see this directly in Ozieri, Sardinia, where we are working on several properties. Ozieri has more than 5,000 inhabitants, but it offers an instructive example of a problem shared by many smaller communities: finding a decent apartment to rent can be surprisingly difficult, and suitable properties may be snapped up almost as soon as they become available.</p><p>Yet a modestly priced property, refurbished at a reasonable cost and rented for &#8364;400&#8211;450 a month, can provide an attractive return. In some towns, that return may even be more predictable than running a holiday rental in a destination where tourist demand is hardly guaranteed for twelve months of the year.</p><p>This is not simply a social issue. It is also a question of market dynamics, investment models and how to bring unused housing stock back into productive use.</p><p>Perhaps we should spend a little less time discussing how to create another charming holiday apartment and a little more time asking why an ordinary worker cannot find somewhere to live.</p><p><strong>Mobility, mobility, mobility. And services.</strong></p><p>Then there is another problem.</p><p>A tourist destination needs hospitality, restaurants, experiences, itineraries, information and transport connections for visitors. A community needs these things too, but it also needs to be able to reach schools, hospitals, workplaces, shops and public services every single day.</p><p>There is a reason why Italy&#8217;s National Strategy for Inner Areas (<em>Strategia Nazionale per le Aree Interne</em>, or SNAI) uses accessibility to education, transport and healthcare to identify the most vulnerable territories.</p><p>A tourist may find an isolated village wonderfully romantic. A family that needs to take children to school, reach a medical appointment or travel forty kilometres to work may have slightly less poetic priorities.</p><p>Tourism growth can help keep a caf&#233;, a small shop or a restaurant open. That is an important benefit and should not be underestimated. But it can also encourage seasonal businesses, transport services designed around visitors rather than commuters, accommodation available only for short stays and additional pressure on already inadequate parking and infrastructure.</p><p><strong>The risk is not merely that tourism fails to solve depopulation. It is that the tourism narrative may end up concealing the problems faced by those who still live there.</strong></p><p>A little dust swept under the carpet. An exceptionally beautiful carpet, naturally, photographed by a professional and featured in a destination-marketing campaign.</p><p><strong>And, inevitably, along come the digital nomads</strong></p><p>Apparently, no conference on the regeneration of small Italian towns is now complete without a reference to digital nomads. You could almost believe that millions of them are waiting at airports, laptops packed and tickets ready, desperate to move to whichever borgo organises the next festival.</p><p>Digital nomads can be an asset. I have been arguing that for years.</p><p>They can bring income, expertise, spending power and international connections. Some may even decide to settle permanently. But digital nomadism, by its very definition, involves mobility. Spending a few weeks or months somewhere is not the same as making it your permanent home.</p><p>Our NOMAG research, based on 1,056 respondents, found that 58% were between 35 and 54 years old. These are often established professionals, rather different from the familiar stereotype of a twenty-something sitting on a beach with a laptop and an improbably good Wi-Fi connection.</p><p>But professional maturity does not automatically translate into a desire to settle in a small Italian municipality.</p><p>A similar distinction emerged from our work on <em>relocals</em>: people who have moved to Italy from abroad, who may put down roots, invest and contribute to their local communities. They are not simply visitors to attract, but potential new residents who need support, integration and practical ways to build a life.</p><p>Tourism and digital nomadism may open the door. Repopulation begins when someone finds both the reasons and the conditions to stay.</p><p><strong>And who decides how public money should be spent?</strong></p><p>This brings us to what I consider the most delicate question of all.</p><p>Because narratives are not just about communication. They influence priorities, funding programmes, grant applications, the expertise brought into projects and, ultimately, the results everyone expects to see.</p><p>Italy&#8217;s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) allocated &#8364;1.02 billion to the <em>Attrattivit&#224; dei Borghi</em> programme &#8212; literally, the attractiveness of historic villages.</p><p>This is not &#8364;1.02 billion spent on advertising. The programme includes investment in cultural, social and economic regeneration, heritage and productive activities. The Ministry of Tourism has also provided a &#8364;34 million fund for small municipalities with tourism potential, covering interventions in mobility, accessibility and environmental sustainability, among other areas.</p><p>It would therefore be misleading to throw all these resources into the same basket or suggest they are being spent exclusively on publicity and events.</p><p>But precisely because we are talking about substantial public investment, it is perfectly reasonable to ask what proportion will generate lasting, structural benefits for the people living in those communities.</p><p>And, above all, why should the ability to attract visitors remain a leading measure of success when the stated objective is to reverse depopulation?</p><p>Consider a purely hypothetical example.</p><p>With &#8364;1 million, a programme could offer fifty grants of &#8364;20,000 each to help restore fifty existing homes, requiring private co-investment and a binding commitment to make those properties available for residential rental over an agreed period.</p><p>That would not automatically create fifty new families. Nor would it solve transport or healthcare problems. But it could generate measurable new housing supply, with verifiable outcomes and potentially lasting benefits.</p><p>The same &#8364;1 million could be spent on destination marketing, events or promotional campaigns and still be money well spent &#8212; provided everyone is clear about the intended objective.</p><p>If that objective is repopulation, however, there should be a credible explanation of how the expenditure will contribute to achieving it.</p><p>Tourism promotion has its own economic value and deserves to be judged on its own merits. Personally, I tend to look favourably on privately organised events, perhaps supported by local authorities through patronage, public spaces, facilities or practical cooperation.</p><p>But when public resources are allocated to tackling structural problems, effectiveness, alternatives and opportunity costs should be central to the discussion.</p><p>Because a million euros spent on one initiative is a million euros unavailable for something else.</p><p>And the mere existence of a funding programme does not automatically make every project capable of securing that funding worthwhile.</p><p>There is, after all, a rather important distinction between identifying a problem that needs solving and identifying a grant that needs spending.</p><p><strong>Measure the results. Don&#8217;t just tell the story.</strong></p><p>An event attended by two hundred people can be a success. A campaign generating a hundred thousand views can work beautifully. A tourism programme that increases overnight stays may have achieved precisely what it set out to do.</p><p>But if we are discussing repopulation, we should be measuring something quite different.</p><p>How many homes have been restored for residential use? How many ordinary rental agreements have been signed? How many people have actually relocated? How many are still registered residents two or three years later? Which businesses remain operational? Which essential services have become more accessible?</p><p>And, no less importantly, how many existing residents have we helped to stay rather than leave?</p><p>We need baseline data, subsequent assessments and comparisons with similar territories, so that we do not attribute to a festival, a promotional campaign or a public grant results that may have occurred for entirely different reasons.</p><p>Reporting that an event took place is not the same as demonstrating that regeneration has occurred.</p><p>A successful press release is not an impact assessment. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is not a demographic policy. And a photograph of a smiling mayor surrounded by visitors tells us remarkably little about whether the local primary school will still be open in five years&#8217; time.</p><p><strong>I say this as someone who works with tourism, not against it.</strong></p><p>I have been involved with the sector since 2014. I am among the relatively few Italians involved with the UK&#8217;s Institute of Travel &amp; Tourism (ITT), and I helped bring three of its conferences to Italy. For four or five years, we also hosted and accompanied representatives of Italian public institutions at international presentations and meetings promoting our country.</p><p>I know how much work, professionalism and expertise goes into promoting a destination. And I firmly believe tourism can play a decisive role in reviving local economies and restoring neglected properties.</p><p>Which is precisely why I have always found it rather revealing when, on several occasions &#8212; particularly in Sicily, Sardinia and Puglia &#8212; we were encouraged to submit applications for public funding by presenting our residential property and territorial development projects as predominantly tourism-related initiatives.</p><p>In essence, the suggestion was to adjust the description of what we actually do to fit the categories of funding that happened to be available.</p><p>We chose not to.</p><p>Perhaps rather foolishly, from a financial point of view.</p><p>Not because those funding programmes were necessarily inappropriate, but because our work involves identifying, restoring and bringing properties back into use, developing economic opportunities and supporting new residents and investment in local communities.</p><p>Sometimes through tourism, certainly. But not necessarily for tourism.</p><p>And so, when I come across articles that look suspiciously like press releases, celebrating tourism events featuring tourism partners and a parade of politicians, with the obligatory references to &#8220;regeneration&#8221;, &#8220;repopulation&#8221;, &#8220;community&#8221; and, naturally, &#8220;digital nomads&#8221; squeezed between a photograph and an institutional quote, I do find myself raising an eyebrow.</p><p>Not because organising those events is illegitimate, nor because I automatically question the intentions of their promoters.</p><p>What troubles me is the casual ease with which journalism, public relations and sometimes politics transform a tourism initiative into an alleged solution to depopulation, without demanding appropriate indicators or measurable results.</p><p>And the ease with which the availability of public funding can become a sufficient reason to organise something, rather than an opportunity to ask what the territory actually needs.</p><p>One might occasionally wish that the journalist writing the story and the PR consultant promoting it were at least two different people. But perhaps that is asking too much.</p><p><strong>Tourism can contribute to regeneration. It should not replace those responsible for designing it.</strong></p><p>We should not stop promoting Italy&#8217;s smaller municipalities. Quite the opposite.</p><p>We should bring together tourism operators, investors, local authorities, property professionals, businesses, social organisations and, above all, residents, each contributing their own expertise and carrying their own responsibilities.</p><p>Tourism can generate economic opportunities. It can revive neglected buildings. It can even provide the first encounter between a person and a place they eventually decide to call home.</p><p>But designing a tourist destination and creating the conditions for a stable community remain two very different jobs.</p><p>Otherwise, we will continue spending public money on wonderful weekend destinations while the people who would actually like to live there struggle to find a rental home, a bus to get to work or the services they need.</p><p><strong>A borgo is a destination. A municipality is a community. And before deciding how best to promote it, perhaps we should worry a little more about making it liveable.</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.itsjournal.com/p/a-borgo-is-romantic-but-the-municipality?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading ITS Journal! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.itsjournal.com/p/a-borgo-is-romantic-but-the-municipality?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.itsjournal.com/p/a-borgo-is-romantic-but-the-municipality?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div><hr></div><h3>Beyond the slogans: our research</h3><p>These are also some of the questions behind <strong>NOMAG Research Books</strong>, our independent research series, presented on 24 September at the Centro Studi Americani (Centre for American Studies) in Rome.</p><p>Three studies explore what actually happens when Italy tries to attract people, investment and new residents &#8212; and whether the reality lives up to the headlines.</p><p><strong>At Last, Italy&#8230; At Least Temporarily</strong> draws on 1,056 responses to investigate who digital nomads really are, what they are looking for and whether Italy is prepared to welcome them.</p><p><strong>Debunking Italy&#8217;s &#8364;1 House Effect</strong> goes beyond the irresistible headlines to examine actual property transactions, renovations and the impact of these initiatives on local communities.</p><p><strong>RELOCALS &#8212; Preliminary Findings</strong> looks at people who have moved to Italy from abroad, exploring why they came, why some have stayed and what challenges they encounter when turning a destination into a home.</p><p>Three different perspectives, one underlying question: <strong>how can international interest in Italy become something tangible and lasting for its territories and the people who live there?</strong></p><p>All three studies are available in English and Italian. Free subscribers can access the research introductions and downloadable abstracts, while paid ITS Journal subscribers can read the complete digital editions through their subscriber benefits. The books are also available on Amazon.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/p/litalia-vista-da-chi-arriva-tre-ricerche">Explore the three NOMAG Research Books and read the free abstracts</a></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n7wF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65051a9e-4ce7-4547-bc36-c7e55aac5c4e_1448x1086.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n7wF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65051a9e-4ce7-4547-bc36-c7e55aac5c4e_1448x1086.png 424w, 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E poi ci sono persone che cercano di cambiare questa prospettiva, non con grandi dichiarazioni sul valore dei borghi, ma creando luoghi nei quali sia possibile lavorare, imparare, incontrarsi e magari immaginare di restare.</p><p>A Licodia Eubea, in Sicilia, una di queste esperienze si chiama Lycoworking (si, ne abbiamo gi&#224; <a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/p/licodia-eubea-the-unexpected-village?utm_source=publication-search">parlato diverse volte</a> e <a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/p/remote-workers-for-remote-villages-bc7?utm_source=publication-search">intervistato i fondatori</a>). Nato nel marzo 2025, il coworking si propone di contribuire al contrasto dello spopolamento attraverso nuove opportunit&#224; sul territorio, mettendo in relazione lavoro, formazione e comunit&#224;.</p><p>A poco pi&#249; di un anno dalla nascita, il progetto ha compiuto un viaggio decisamente inatteso: dalla Sicilia alla Cina, passando per Pechino e Shanghai. Il motivo &#232; la selezione di Lycoworking da parte di Huawei Italia per partecipare a <strong>Seeds for the Future &#8211; Digital Villages</strong>, insieme a Monaci Digitali, Tursi Digital Nomads e a un gruppo di studenti del Politecnico di Torino.</p><p>Un collegamento nato attraverso Progetto Tornanza, nella cui rete Lycoworking &#232; entrato come hub, e che ha aperto la strada a una collaborazione internazionale.</p><h2>Dalla Cina arrivano nuove tecnologie</h2><p>La partecipazione al programma non si esaurisce in un viaggio o in uno scambio di esperienze. Entro ottobre 2026 &#232; prevista la consegna di una dotazione tecnologica donata da Huawei Italia: access point di ultima generazione, destinati a migliorare la copertura Wi-Fi, e un IdeaHub, una lavagna multimediale di circa due metri.</p><p>Non semplici oggetti tecnologici da esibire, ma strumenti che Lycoworking intende utilizzare per migliorare l&#8217;esperienza di chi frequenta gli spazi, sostenere la formazione e rendere pi&#249; interattivi incontri e attivit&#224; della comunit&#224;.</p><p>Perch&#233; la possibilit&#224; di lavorare da remoto, seguire un corso o sviluppare un progetto professionale non dipende soltanto dalla volont&#224; delle persone. Dipende anche dalla disponibilit&#224; di luoghi e infrastrutture che rendano quelle attivit&#224; concretamente praticabili.</p><h2>Da Licodia Eubea a Shanghai, e viceversa</h2><p>Roberto Palma, cofondatore dell&#8217;associazione e del coworking, ha partecipato al viaggio tra Pechino e Shanghai, visitando realt&#224; dedicate all&#8217;innovazione Huawei, tra cui un centro di ricerca, e prendendo parte all&#8217;evento Huawei Connect.</p><p>Droni destinati alla logistica e robot capaci di ballare sono alcune delle immagini pi&#249; sorprendenti dell&#8217;esperienza. Tecnologie che raccontano possibilit&#224; molto lontane dalla quotidianit&#224; di tanti piccoli centri italiani, ma che offrono anche l&#8217;occasione per osservare, confrontarsi e raccogliere idee.</p><p>La parte pi&#249; interessante, tuttavia, comincia al ritorno. Perch&#233; il punto non &#232; riprodurre a Licodia Eubea ci&#242; che si &#232; visto a Shanghai, ma capire quali strumenti, competenze e attivit&#224; possano avere un&#8217;utilit&#224; concreta per la comunit&#224; locale.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQVL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faac180d2-31c0-442d-a774-a55a3f696f02_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQVL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faac180d2-31c0-442d-a774-a55a3f696f02_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, 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Per gennaio 2027 &#232; prevista la seconda edizione dei corsi Cisco CCNA, dedicati alle reti informatiche: un settore sul quale l&#8217;associazione intende continuare a investire per offrire ai giovani competenze spendibili nel mondo del lavoro.</p><p>Parallelamente, il progetto punta a reperire ulteriori finanziamenti per migliorare gli spazi e ampliare l&#8217;offerta formativa.</p><p>A novembre Huawei &#232; inoltre attesa a Licodia Eubea per l&#8217;evento conclusivo successivo alla donazione.</p><p>Naturalmente, nessuna lavagna multimediale pu&#242; risolvere da sola il problema dello spopolamento. E nemmeno una connessione migliore garantisce automaticamente occupazione o nuovi residenti. Sarebbe sbagliato confondere la creazione di opportunit&#224; con risultati che devono ancora essere dimostrati.</p><p>Ma creare le condizioni perch&#233; le persone possano lavorare, apprendere e costruire relazioni professionali senza dover necessariamente abbandonare il proprio paese &#232; una parte importante del percorso.</p><p>Da Licodia Eubea a Shanghai e ritorno, dunque. Con una differenza rispetto a tante altre storie di piccoli paesi: questa volta il viaggio non racconta soltanto una partenza. Racconta soprattutto quello che qualcuno sta cercando di riportare a casa.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forse non ‘dobbiamo’ salvare i piccoli paesi. Dobbiamo renderli di nuovo ‘possibili’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mauro Varotto riapre una domanda che vale molto pi&#249; del dibattito sullo spopolamento.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/forse-non-dobbiamo-salvare-i-piccoli</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/forse-non-dobbiamo-salvare-i-piccoli</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matteo Cerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:06:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1523179989595-116ef2a82d6c?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyNHx8YWxwaW5lJTIwdmlsbGFnZSUyMGl0YWx5JTIwYWJhbmRvbmVkfGVufDB8fHx8MTc5MTM1NjcwMXww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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dibattito sullo spopolamento. </strong></h3><h3><strong>Andrea Ferrazzi parla di fiducia, prospettiva e comunit&#224; aperte. </strong></h3><h3><strong>Noi, lavorando sul campo con ITS Italy, scopriamo ogni giorno che recuperare una casa &#232; relativamente semplice. </strong></h3><h3><strong>Il difficile &#232; rendere normale, e non eroica, la scelta di viverci.</strong></h3><p>C&#8217;&#232; un articolo che vale la pena leggere, soprattutto prima di cominciare l&#8217;ennesima discussione su borghi, aree interne e spopolamento. Lo ha scritto Mauro Varotto, geografo dell&#8217;Universit&#224; di Padova, su <em>L&#8217;AltraMontagna</em>, partendo a sua volta dalla provocazione lanciata da Alex Urso: <strong>&#8220;Ma i piccoli paesi vanno salvati per forza?&#8221;</strong>. Varotto sposta subito il problema: forse &#232; proprio &#8220;salvare&#8221; il verbo sbagliato. Un paese non &#232; un quadro da preservare immutato. Va semmai riabitato e ripensato come possibilit&#224; di vita contemporanea. </p><p><a href="https://www.ildolomiti.it/altra-montagna/idee/2026/ma-e-proprio-necessario-salvare-i-piccoli-paesi-di-montagna-non-va-fatto-per-nostalgia-ma-per-una-nuova-idea-di-mondo-tutta-da-costruire?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Leggi l&#8217;articolo di Mauro Varotto su L&#8217;AltraMontagna</a></p><p>&#200; un passaggio che mi convince molto, anche perch&#233; mette finalmente in discussione due scorciatoie opposte: quella dell&#8217;abbandono considerato inevitabile e quella della rigenerazione trasformata in nostalgia, marketing, turismo e scenografia. Un paese pieno per tre settimane ad agosto non &#232; necessariamente un paese tornato a vivere. Ma neppure un paese con residenti formalmente iscritti all&#8217;anagrafe &#232; automaticamente una comunit&#224; vitale.</p><p>Mentre leggevo Varotto pensavo a un altro libro uscito recentemente, <em>Il futuro ad alta quota</em> di <strong>Andrea Ferrazzi</strong>. Il punto di Ferrazzi &#232; per certi aspetti ancora pi&#249; radicale: non bastano bellezza, identit&#224;, tradizioni e retorica della &#8220;restanza&#8221;. Servono servizi, certo - scuola, sanit&#224;, mobilit&#224;, infrastrutture - ma <strong>neppure i servizi bastano se manca una prospettiva</strong>. Senza la percezione che in quel luogo si possa costruire qualcosa, il territorio rimane periferico anche quando economicamente non &#232; povero. </p><p>Ferrazzi arriva infatti a una formulazione che sintetizza bene il problema: il compito non &#232; conservare territori che immaginiamo morenti, ma costruire luoghi vivi, desiderabili, capaci di attrarre persone, talento e investimento umano. 25R0363p01L_9788849887075_CM_Fe&#8230; E parla di <strong>comunit&#224; aperte</strong>, nelle quali il radicamento non significhi chiusura e la relazione tra persone, istituzioni e imprese diventi parte dello sviluppo stesso. </p><p><a href="https://www.store.rubbettinoeditore.it/catalogo/il-futuro-ad-alta-quota/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Andrea Ferrazzi, Il futuro ad alta quota &#8212; Rubbettino</a></p><p>&#200; qui che la riflessione incontra molto direttamente quello che vediamo noi lavorando con ITS Italy.</p><p>Sul terreno scopri abbastanza presto che <strong>l&#8217;immobile &#232; quasi sempre la parte (relativamente) pi&#249; facile del problema</strong>. Una casa si pu&#242; comprare, recuperare, arredare, collegare a internet. Molto pi&#249; difficile &#232; tutto ci&#242; che comincia il giorno dopo: trovare qualcuno che risponda quando hai un problema, capire come funzionano servizi e amministrazione, costruire relazioni, lavorare, muoversi, sentirsi parte di un luogo senza dover chiedere ogni volta il permesso di esserlo.</p><p>E scopri anche un altro paradosso. Molti piccoli centri dicono di voler attirare nuovi abitanti, ma continuano comprensibilmente a funzionare secondo sistemi costruiti intorno a chi gi&#224; conosce persone, codici, abitudini e scorciatoie locali. <strong>Vogliamo nuovi residenti, ma spesso chiediamo loro di diventare immediatamente vecchi residenti.</strong></p><p>Questo, nella nostra esperienza, &#232; uno dei punti pi&#249; delicati. Riabitare non pu&#242; voler dire semplicemente riempire gli spazi lasciati vuoti replicando il paese di cinquant&#8217;anni fa. Quello spesso non esiste pi&#249;, e non torner&#224;. Significa permettere al paese di cambiare funzione senza perdere necessariamente identit&#224;: qualcuno vi lavorer&#224; da remoto, qualcun altro aprir&#224; una piccola attivit&#224;, qualcuno vivr&#224; tra due luoghi, qualcuno porter&#224; competenze che prima non esistevano e qualcun altro continuer&#224; a fare ci&#242; che l&#236; si faceva da generazioni.</p><p>Probabilmente dovremmo smettere anche di misurare il successo soltanto chiedendoci se un paese torner&#224; ai suoi abitanti del 1951. Alcuni non ci torneranno mai. La questione pi&#249; interessante &#232; se possano raggiungere <strong>un nuovo equilibrio</strong> nel quale ci siano abbastanza persone, attivit&#224;, servizi, relazioni e prospettive da rendere quel luogo nuovamente abitabile senza bisogno di trasformarlo n&#233; in un museo n&#233; in un resort.</p><p>Ferrazzi scrive che la crisi dei territori non &#232; solo economica o demografica, ma anche narrativa: quando un luogo smette di immaginare il proprio futuro, diventa pi&#249; difficile trattenere persone, investimenti e innovazione. Varotto, da un&#8217;altra prospettiva, ci invita a non confondere quel futuro con la restaurazione del passato.</p><p>Forse il punto d&#8217;incontro &#232; proprio qui.</p><p><strong>Non tutti i piccoli paesi devono essere &#8220;salvati&#8221;. Ma molti possono essere rimessi nelle condizioni di scegliere il proprio futuro.</strong></p><p>E la prova decisiva, alla fine, &#232; molto meno romantica di quanto sembri: non quante persone riusciamo a convincere ad arrivare, ma quante possono immaginare di svegliarsi l&#236; il mattino dopo, vivere una giornata del tutto normale e avere ancora voglia di farlo fra dieci anni.</p><p>Perch&#233; forse un paese ricomincia davvero a vivere quando <strong>restarci smette di essere un atto eroico</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>BOX | Da dove viene il nostro punto di osservazione</strong></h3><p>Parallelamente all&#8217;attivit&#224; sul campo di ITS Italy, attraverso <strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/t/nomag-research-books">NOMAG Research Books</a></strong> abbiamo provato a misurare tre fenomeni che incrociano in modi diversi il rapporto tra persone e territori italiani.</p><p><em>Digital Nomad: finalmente anche in Italia&#8230; almeno per un po&#8217;</em> osserva chi pu&#242; scegliere temporaneamente dove vivere e quanto questa mobilit&#224; sia davvero capace di creare relazioni con i luoghi. </p><p><em>Il vero effetto delle case a 1 euro</em> separa la riattivazione immobiliare dagli effetti demografici e territoriali che spesso le vengono automaticamente attribuiti.</p><p><em>RELOCALS</em> guarda invece alle persone nate all&#8217;estero che hanno gi&#224; scelto l&#8217;Italia come luogo di vita e al rapporto che costruiscono con il Paese che le ospita.</p><p>Tre domande diverse, dentro una questione pi&#249; grande: <strong>che cosa trasforma l&#8217;arrivo di una persona nella relazione duratura con un luogo?</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Fnh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F205eb0de-973f-47ff-be3e-dc8510a9ca4c_1448x1086.png" 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della presentazione di RELOCALS a Roma.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/grazie-marlo-e-adesso-guardiamo-avanti</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/grazie-marlo-e-adesso-guardiamo-avanti</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:47:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/Kj9vLOtqwlo" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Un grazie particolare a <strong>Marlo Di Castro</strong> per le brevi interviste e le riprese realizzate in occasione della presentazione di <strong>RELOCALS</strong> a Roma. Qui un piccolo racconto video di quella giornata:</p><div id="youtube2-Kj9vLOtqwlo" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Kj9vLOtqwlo&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;102s&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Kj9vLOtqwlo?start=102s&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>RELOCALS, per&#242;, non nasceva per fotografare semplicemente un evento. E nemmeno per aggiungere l&#8217;ennesima definizione a chi ha deciso di trasferirsi in Italia.</p><p>La nostra domanda era un&#8217;altra: <strong>che cosa succede quando qualcuno arriva in Italia pensando magari di fermarsi per poco, e invece resta?</strong> Che rapporto costruisce con il territorio? Cambia il modo in cui racconta l&#8217;Italia? Porta competenze, relazioni, investimenti, nuove attivit&#224;? E, soprattutto, l&#8217;Italia si accorge davvero di queste persone?</p><p>I primi risultati ci hanno dato qualche risposta piuttosto interessante. Il <strong>64,1%</strong> degli intervistati non pensava inizialmente di restare cos&#236; a lungo. Il <strong>75,7%</strong> dice che vivere in Italia ha cambiato il modo in cui racconta il Paese agli altri. E il <strong>65% non &#232; mai stato coinvolto da un ente o da un&#8217;organizzazione italiana</strong>.</p><p>&#200; proprio da quest&#8217;ultimo dato che, secondo noi, comincia la parte pi&#249; interessante della ricerca.</p><p>Per questo <strong>RELOCALS &#8211; Preliminary Findings</strong> &#232; volutamente un primo capitolo, non una conclusione. Nei prossimi mesi vogliamo ampliare il campione, incontrare nuove comunit&#224;, territori, amministrazioni e persone che hanno scelto l&#8217;Italia, anche temporaneamente, cercando di capire meglio un fenomeno che potrebbe avere un ruolo molto pi&#249; importante di quanto immaginiamo nel futuro di molti territori italiani.</p><p>RELOCALS &#232; anche il terzo volume della collana <strong>NOMAG Research Books</strong>, insieme a <em>At Last, Italy&#8230; At Least Temporarily</em>, dedicato ai digital nomads e remote workers, e <em>Debunking Italy&#8217;s &#8364;1 House Effect</em>, la nostra analisi sull&#8217;effetto reale delle case a 1 euro.</p><p>Tre ricerche diverse, ma in fondo una sola domanda: <strong>chi pu&#242; davvero contribuire a riportare persone, competenze, relazioni ed economia nei territori italiani che stanno perdendo abitanti?</strong></p><p>I libri sono disponibili anche su Amazon e sono <strong>inclusi negli abbonamenti a pagamento di Nomag e ITS Journal</strong>.</p><p>E RELOCALS resta aperto. Se vivete in Italia dopo esservi trasferiti qui dall&#8217;estero, se lavorate con queste comunit&#224;, rappresentate un territorio o semplicemente pensate di avere qualcosa da aggiungere alla ricerca, non vogliamo soltanto che leggiate quello che abbiamo trovato: <strong>vogliamo che prendiate parte alla fase successiva.</strong></p><p>&#128233; <a href="mailto:info@nomag.media">info@nomag.media</a></p><p>Grazie ancora a Marlo Di Castro per aver raccolto qualche voce e qualche immagine di questa prima tappa. <strong>Roma era soltanto la prima fotografia.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vivere in Svizzera senza chiudersi in una sola città]]></title><description><![CDATA[C&#8217;&#232; un modo pi&#249; riduttivo di raccontare la qualit&#224; della vita: immaginarla come qualcosa che finisce dentro i confini di una citt&#224;.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/vivere-in-svizzera-senza-chiudersi</link><guid 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Dove abiti, quali servizi hai vicino, quanto tempo perdi negli spostamenti, quanta natura puoi raggiungere, quanto &#232; semplice organizzare una giornata normale.</p><p>Sono elementi fondamentali, naturalmente. E negli articoli precedenti dedicati a Mendrisio abbiamo insistito proprio su questo: la qualit&#224; della vita non &#232; soltanto paesaggio, ma capacit&#224; di funzionare bene ogni giorno. &#200; la possibilit&#224; di vivere in un luogo dove lavoro, servizi, mobilit&#224;, scuola, tempo libero e natura non sono mondi separati da ricomporre ogni giorno con fatica.</p><p>Ma c&#8217;&#232; un secondo livello, altrettanto importante: una citt&#224; non &#232; soltanto ci&#242; che contiene. &#200; anche ci&#242; che rende possibile raggiungere.</p><p>Da questo punto di vista, Mendrisio offre una prospettiva interessante su un modo contemporaneo di vivere la Svizzera. Non necessariamente dentro la dimensione pi&#249; intensa delle grandi citt&#224;, ma nemmeno in una condizione periferica o isolata. Piuttosto, in una posizione che consente di tenere insieme tranquillit&#224;, servizi, lavoro e accesso a un territorio molto pi&#249; ampio.</p><p>Vivere a Mendrisio significa trovarsi in un punto da cui molte cose diventano raggiungibili senza trasformarsi in un&#8217;impresa. Lugano &#232; vicina. Como e Milano sono facilmente raggiungibili. Il resto del Ticino e diverse destinazioni svizzere come Lucerna e Zurigo, ma anche localit&#224; sciistiche come St. Moritz o Davos, possono entrare nella geografia di una giornata, di un fine settimana o di una breve pausa. In circa due ore di treno o di auto &#8212; o poco pi&#249;, a seconda della destinazione &#8212; si apre un ventaglio di possibilit&#224; che pu&#242; cambiare il modo stesso di percepire il luogo in cui si vive.</p><p>Questo non significa vivere sempre altrove. Al contrario. Significa avere una base solida, riconoscibile, abbastanza raccolta da rendere semplice la vita ordinaria, ma abbastanza connessa da non sentirsi isolati o limitati.</p><p>&#200; una differenza importante. In molti contesti, la scelta sembra essere tra la grande citt&#224;, con la sua energia ma anche con i suoi costi e le sue fatiche, e il piccolo centro, spesso raccontato come rifugio ma percepito come meno connesso. Mendrisio suggerisce una terza possibilit&#224;: vivere in una citt&#224; a misura pi&#249; umana, senza rinunciare alla possibilit&#224; di muoversi, incontrare, scoprire, lavorare e partecipare a reti e sistemi pi&#249; ampi.</p><p>Questa idea diventa particolarmente rilevante per chi lavora in modo flessibile, per chi ha relazioni professionali tra pi&#249; territori, per chi studia, per chi si sposta tra Svizzera e Italia o per chi semplicemente non vuole che la propria vita dipenda sempre dall&#8217;automobile o da lunghi spostamenti quotidiani.</p><p>La mobilit&#224;, in questo senso, non &#232; soltanto infrastruttura tecnica. &#200; la libert&#224; di costruire settimane diverse. Una giornata concentrata sul lavoro, una sera a Lugano, un incontro a Milano, un fine settimana nella natura, una visita culturale, un viaggio breve che non richiede per forza grandi preparativi.</p><p>La qualit&#224; della vita non nasce solo dal restare fermi in un posto bello, ma anche dal sapere che da quel posto si pu&#242; partire facilmente e rientrare senza perdere il senso di casa.</p><p>Mendreasy, l&#8217;iniziativa della Citt&#224; di Mendrisio rivolta a chi sta valutando di vivere, studiare, lavorare o sviluppare un&#8217;attivit&#224; sul territorio, aiuta a leggere proprio questa combinazione. Mendrisio non viene presentata come una destinazione perfetta e autosufficiente, ma come un luogo da cui organizzare meglio la propria vita, mettendo in relazione servizi, mobilit&#224;, territorio, connessioni e opportunit&#224;.</p><p>&#200; forse questo il punto pi&#249; interessante. La Svizzera non si vive soltanto scegliendo una grande citt&#224; o una localit&#224; da cartolina. Si pu&#242; vivere anche scegliendo una base intelligente: un luogo in cui la quotidianit&#224; resta gestibile e il resto del territorio rimane vicino.</p><p>In un&#8217;epoca in cui molti cercano equilibrio, ma non vogliono rinunciare a stimoli, relazioni e possibilit&#224;, questa pu&#242; essere una forma molto concreta di benessere. Non una promessa astratta, ma una geografia pi&#249; semplice: vivere bene dove si &#232;, sapendo che molto altro &#232; a portata di treno.</p><p><br><strong>Informazioni:</strong> <a href="mailto:welcome@mendrisio.ch">welcome@mendrisio.ch</a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://mendreasy.swiss/mt&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Scopri Mendreasy&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://mendreasy.swiss/mt"><span>Scopri Mendreasy</span></a></p><p></p><p>Guarda la nostra intervista registrata a Mendrisio! &#128071;</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;863dbb62-1054-480e-b372-c9d65878a7e4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mendrisio, una citt&#224; dove la vita funziona pi&#249; facilmente&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:344622313,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;ITS ITALY&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;ITS ITALY supports the growth and future investment in historic Italian villages. 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Almeno nei programmi elettorali.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dal mare ai borghi, &#232; diventato la risposta universale a tutti i problemi]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/un-digital-nomad-ci-salvera-almeno</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/un-digital-nomad-ci-salvera-almeno</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matteo Cerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:36:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cJO-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186453cf-b935-45a7-885e-02ce8eee7c32_1920x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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C&#8217;&#232; una localit&#224; turistica che deve destagionalizzare, un borgo che perde abitanti, qualche centinaio di case vuote, un immobile pubblico da recuperare, un coworking da riempire, un progetto di innovazione da presentare o semplicemente un programma amministrativo al quale si vuole aggiungere un po&#8217; di contemporaneit&#224; e di pompa magna? Prima o poi compaiono loro: i digital nomad. Devono portare nuovi consumi, allungare la stagione, salvare i piccoli esercizi commerciali, riempire gli appartamenti inutilizzati, animare i centri storici, creare community, diffondere innovazione, contribuire al ripopolamento e magari convincere qualche impresa a nascere. Manca soltanto che affidiamo loro la pace nel mondo e, almeno sulla carta, possiamo dichiarare risolti buona parte dei problemi dei territori italiani.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u7WZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d77651b-0b38-4c1a-b483-af051f851c12_2420x1258.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u7WZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d77651b-0b38-4c1a-b483-af051f851c12_2420x1258.png 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Questa volta lo spunto arriva da San Benedetto del Tronto. <strong><a href="https://www.cronachepicene.it/2026/10/04/la-riviera-dei-nomadi-digitali-ecco-unidea-di-mozzoni-per-guardare-oltre-lestate/618039/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUvB9pjbGNrBS8Hn2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeLEEpa-As8n7U4GVFCntFPctLIsUpXSTvacsnF12UZRJ2gNcKl0mPdi1VSKY_aem_4cena_AkcvGXK0-gtwH4xg">Cronache Picene</a></strong> racconta che tra le idee contenute nel programma della nuova amministrazione c&#8217;&#232; anche quella di rendere la Riviera pi&#249; attrattiva per nomadi digitali e lavoratori da remoto, attraverso infrastrutture digitali, spazi di coworking, hub per l&#8217;innovazione e servizi che consentano di lavorare magari anche guardando il mare. E vorrei chiarire subito una cosa, perch&#233; altrimenti finiamo per discutere della cosa sbagliata: <strong>l&#8217;idea di attirare persone che possano vivere e lavorare a San Benedetto fuori stagione &#232; ottima</strong>. In una citt&#224; che dispone di migliaia di posti letto, appartamenti, ristoranti, servizi e infrastrutture costruiti per sostenere una fortissima domanda estiva, provare a portare persone anche a novembre, gennaio o marzo &#232; quasi ovvio. Se fossi il Comune, lo farei (forse) anch&#8217;io.</p><p>Il problema comincia quando alla domanda sensata - &#8220;come possiamo portare pi&#249; persone qui fuori stagione?&#8221; - sostituiamo automaticamente una risposta gi&#224; confezionata: &#8220;attiriamo i digital nomad&#8221;. Perch&#233; a quel punto sarebbe forse il caso, prima ancora di progettare il nuovo hub, di fermarsi su una domanda apparentemente banale che continuiamo curiosamente a saltare: <strong>chi sono esattamente queste persone e, soprattutto, quante sono?</strong></p><p>In Italia gi&#224; le parole non aiutano. Abbiamo lo smart worker, il lavoratore agile, il remote worker, quello che lavora interamente da remoto, quello che lavora da casa due giorni alla settimana, il freelance che pu&#242; lavorare veramente da qualunque posto, il dipendente che deve tornare in ufficio il gioved&#236;, il cittadino europeo che passa tre mesi in Italia, l&#8217;extraeuropeo che pu&#242; richiedere un visto specifico, quello che fa una workation di due settimane e, naturalmente, il digital nomad. Nell&#8217;uso quotidiano tendiamo tranquillamente a mettere tutti nello stesso calderone, salvo poi estrarne il numero che ci conviene quando dobbiamo dimostrare quanto enorme sia il mercato.</p><p>Prendiamo il dato italiano pi&#249; citato. L&#8217;<strong>Osservatorio Smart Working del Politecnico di Milano</strong> stimava nel 2025 circa <strong>3,575 milioni di lavoratori da remoto in Italia</strong>. Tanti, certamente. Ma la definizione comprende chi opera da remoto almeno per una parte del proprio tempo e lo stesso Osservatorio segnala come il modello ibrido strutturato sia quello maggiormente diffuso, soprattutto nelle grandi imprese e nella pubblica amministrazione. Sono quindi 3,575 milioni di persone che utilizzano forme di lavoro a distanza, non 3,575 milioni di italiani che domattina possono mettere un laptop nello zaino, chiudere casa e decidere di vivere per febbraio e marzo a San Benedetto del Tronto.</p><p>La distinzione non &#232; una mia fissazione semantica. La fa perfino la normativa italiana. Per gli ingressi dei cittadini extra-UE, il nostro ordinamento distingue il <strong>nomade digitale</strong>, che svolge attivit&#224; autonoma altamente qualificata, dal <strong>lavoratore da remoto</strong>, che invece opera come dipendente o collaboratore. Entrambi devono rispettare requisiti specifici e il regime riguarda una popolazione ben pi&#249; circoscritta dell&#8217;enorme universo che evochiamo normalmente quando pronunciamo l&#8217;espressione &#8220;digital nomad&#8221;.</p><p>Poi naturalmente esistono i cittadini europei, che non hanno bisogno di quel visto, e tutti gli altri casi difficili da intercettare statisticamente. Ed eccoci al paradosso pi&#249; interessante: mentre continuiamo a costruire strategie territoriali attorno al fenomeno, <strong>non sappiamo ancora quanti nomadi digitali arrivino realmente in Italia</strong>. Nel febbraio 2026 <strong>Forbes</strong> (allora stiamo sereni!) riportava, richiamando le elaborazioni del <strong>Quarto Rapporto sul Nomadismo Digitale</strong>, una stima di 20.000-45.000 persone amministrativamente &#8220;tracciabili&#8221; e, applicando metodologie indirette utilizzate in altri Paesi, un potenziale di 850.000-900.000 presenze annuali. Ma lo stesso articolo specificava chiaramente che non esiste un dato ufficiale italiano capace di misurare con precisione quanti digital nomad entrino o soggiornino nel Paese. Non me ne vogliano gli amici dell&#8217;Associazione Italiana Nomadi Digitali&#8230; i numeri sono tutti stimati (magari persino per difetto), per non dire sparati totalmente.</p><p>&#200; una differenza gigantesca. Venti o quarantamila persone identificabili non sono novecentomila; novecentomila <strong>potenziali passaggi annuali</strong> non sono novecentomila persone alla ricerca di una casa per sei mesi; e nessuno dei tre numeri ci dice quante di quelle persone siano interessate a San Benedetto, a un piccolo comune appenninico, alle Madonie, alla Sardegna interna o a ciascuna delle ormai innumerevoli destinazioni italiane che dichiarano di volerle attrarre.</p><p>Ed &#232; qui che vorrei vedere, prima o poi, un&#8217;altra ricerca. Non l&#8217;ennesimo conteggio dei digital nomad nel mondo, ma il conteggio dei <strong>digital nomad che abbiamo gi&#224; promesso a noi stessi</strong>. Vorrei prendere tutti i programmi comunali, i bandi, i progetti di rigenerazione, le iniziative regionali, i coworking, i borghi, le localit&#224; balneari e montane, le aree interne e le destinazioni che negli ultimi anni hanno annunciato di voler attrarre questa popolazione e sommare le aspettative. Ho il sospetto che scopriremmo di aver bisogno di qualche milione di persone, possibilmente tutte contemporaneamente innamorate dell&#8217;Italia e tutte desiderose di distribuirsi esattamente nei luoghi nei quali abbiamo bisogno di loro.</p><p>Non ho quel numero e non intendo inventarlo. Ma basta fare un conto puramente illustrativo per capire il problema: cinquecento destinazioni che ambissero ad attirare mille lavoratori mobili ciascuna avrebbero gi&#224; bisogno di mezzo milione di persone. Mille territori che sperassero anche soltanto in cinquecento nuove presenze arriverebbero allo stesso risultato. E queste persone, nel frattempo, non vengono contese soltanto da San Benedetto e dal resto d&#8217;Italia: ci sono Spagna, Portogallo, Grecia, Croazia, Malta, Madeira, Canarie e decine di Paesi fuori Europa che hanno costruito politiche e prodotti specifici per lo stesso pubblico.</p><p>&#200; anche per questo che, preparando <em><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/p/digital-nomad-in-italia-finalmente">Digital Nomad: finalmente anche in Italia&#8230; almeno per un po&#8217;</a></strong></em>, abbiamo preferito non partire dalla dimensione ipotetica del mercato ma dalle persone. <strong>Abbiamo raccolto 1.056 risposte da un pubblico internazionale </strong>(gli italiani non li abbiamo voluti sentire) che guarda all&#8217;Italia e ci&#242; che emerge rende il fenomeno, a mio avviso, molto pi&#249; interessante ma anche decisamente meno comodo da infilare in una slide comunale. Il nostro campione &#232; pi&#249; adulto di quanto suggerisca l&#8217;immaginario del venticinquenne in coworking; una parte consistente &#232; composta da professionisti senior, manager, imprenditori o persone in una fase post-carriera; quasi la met&#224; preferirebbe avere una base principale dalla quale eventualmente muoversi e soltanto il 9,9% dichiara di desiderare uno spostamento continuo. Casa, mobilit&#224;, sanit&#224;, servizi quotidiani e qualit&#224; della destinazione pesano moltissimo. La community conta, ma meno di quanto spesso raccontiamo.</p><p>E questo, tornando a San Benedetto, potrebbe essere un&#8217;ottima notizia. Perch&#233; significa che forse non serve inventare un villaggio per nomadi digitali e non &#232; detto che la prima cosa da costruire sia un altro coworking. Potrebbe essere molto pi&#249; utile partire dalla citt&#224; reale. Quanti appartamenti normalmente utilizzati d&#8217;estate potrebbero essere affittati per uno, due, tre o sei mesi tra ottobre e maggio? A quali prezzi? Con quali contratti? Quanti hanno una buona connessione gi&#224; installata? Quanto &#232; facile vivere senza macchina? Quali ristoranti, palestre, negozi e servizi rimangono aperti a gennaio? Come si arriva agli aeroporti? Quanto &#232; semplice trovare informazioni in inglese? Quali spazi di lavoro esistono gi&#224;? E soprattutto: per quale motivo una persona che pu&#242; scegliere tra decine di localit&#224; dovrebbe scegliere proprio San Benedetto?</p><p>A quel punto smetterei persino di preoccuparmi troppo della definizione. Se riesco a portare in citt&#224; a febbraio una professionista italiana che lavora interamente da remoto, una coppia olandese che pu&#242; trascorrere tre mesi all&#8217;estero, un consulente americano con un visto adeguato, un imprenditore britannico che divide l&#8217;anno tra due Paesi o una persona che sta valutando un futuro trasferimento in Italia, per l&#8217;economia locale conta molto meno sapere se ciascuno di loro accetti o meno di farsi chiamare digital nomad. Conta che siano l&#236;, che rimangano abbastanza a lungo, che utilizzino case e servizi e che possibilmente tornino.</p><p>Per questo la mia proposta non richiesta a San Benedetto sarebbe molto meno spettacolare di un nuovo hub e, temo, anche molto meno adatta a un taglio del nastro. Cercherei venti o trenta appartamenti disponibili fuori stagione, metterei insieme ci&#242; che la citt&#224; offre gi&#224;, costruirei un&#8217;offerta comprensibile anche per chi arriva dall&#8217;estero e cercherei <strong>cinquanta persone</strong> disposte a viverci per uno, due o tre mesi. Cinquanta, non cinquemila. E misurerei tutto: perch&#233; hanno scelto San Benedetto, quanto rimangono, quanto spendono, quali servizi usano, quante volte vanno davvero in coworking, cosa non funziona, perch&#233; qualcuno rinuncia, quanti vorrebbero tornare e quanti prenderebbero in considerazione una permanenza pi&#249; lunga.</p><p>Se dopo sei mesi scoprissimo che il principale ostacolo &#232; la mancanza di un grande coworking, costruiamolo. Se scoprissimo invece che il problema sono gli appartamenti, i contratti, i collegamenti o la quasi impossibilit&#224; di capire online come si vive a San Benedetto a gennaio, avremmo evitato di risolvere magnificamente il problema sbagliato.</p><p>Non sto sostenendo, quindi, che i digital nomad siano irrilevanti. Sarebbe altrettanto superficiale. Il lavoro remoto ha ampliato enormemente la libert&#224; geografica di una parte della popolazione e per localit&#224; fortemente stagionali, territori con abitazioni sottoutilizzate e citt&#224; con una buona qualit&#224; della vita rappresenta un&#8217;opportunit&#224; concreta. Ma una <strong>opportunit&#224;</strong> non &#232; automaticamente una <strong>strategia</strong>, una categoria statistica non &#232; una popolazione omogenea e una parola alla moda non sostituisce un obiettivo misurabile.</p><p>Prima di chiedere al digital nomad di destagionalizzare il mare, ripopolare i borghi, salvare il commercio, riempire le case e rimettere in moto l&#8217;economia locale, proverei quindi a chiedergli una cosa molto pi&#249; modesta: <strong>verresti davvero qui? Per quanto tempo? E cosa ti servirebbe per restare?</strong></p><p>Per la pace nel mondo possiamo riparlarne al prossimo programma elettorale.</p><div><hr></div><h3>LA RICERCA DIETRO QUESTO ARTICOLO</h3><p><strong>DIGITAL NOMAD: FINALMENTE ANCHE IN ITALIA&#8230; ALMENO PER UN PO&#8217;</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUKm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa52b5437-6e2b-48e5-913b-61216dfafd2d_1500x1000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MUKm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa52b5437-6e2b-48e5-913b-61216dfafd2d_1500x1000.jpeg 424w, 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Chi vuole iniziare dai risultati principali pu&#242; leggere anche l&#8217;abstract gratuito.</p><p></p><p><em>NOMAG Research Books &#8212; edizione italiana, ISSN 3153-774X.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The €1 House Dream Has Become a Sales Funnel for Anything but the House]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8364;1 Houses, low-cost homes, property influencers, &#8220;no-fluff&#8221; guides and the thin line between selling a house, selling a dream and selling yourself as the person who has finally cracked the code]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/the-1-house-dream-has-become-a-sales</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/the-1-house-dream-has-become-a-sales</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matteo Cerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:14:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Gru0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfd71ea5-7c9b-429a-8bd9-bf2b8a6bacf5_1200x675.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Gru0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfd71ea5-7c9b-429a-8bd9-bf2b8a6bacf5_1200x675.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Gru0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfd71ea5-7c9b-429a-8bd9-bf2b8a6bacf5_1200x675.jpeg 424w, 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I discovered that some properties belonging to <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;ITS ITALY&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:344622313,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eNZL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4b50877-819b-4618-9683-a9f591dd5687_106x86.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;af7e1450-be4e-48e9-b2db-cd5b998d79e6&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> in Mussomeli, &#8216;entrusted&#8217; to a local real estate agency with which we work, were being promoted online by someone with whom we have no relationship, using specific property codes, prices and direct calls to contact someone for further information. There is, of course, nothing wrong with promoting a house, just as there is nothing wrong with building an audience around your own property story, but the situation becomes rather different when the property is not yours, when the owner has not been informed that it is being promoted through someone else&#8217;s commercial channels, and when that property ends up inside a model of promotion and monetisation that is very far from the one with which you want your own work to be associated.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3NLY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec520aec-338b-4bb5-b8a1-3984c6da85b9_1164x1190.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">This &#8216;gentleman&#8217; is &#8216;introducing&#8217; one of our houses on his profile&#8230; eventually selling guides on how to live there&#8230; buy properties and other &#8216;services&#8217; - while boasting his lifestyle in some &#8216;reality-show&#8217;</figcaption></figure></div><p>That relatively small episode (which we are now investigating) brought me back to a question I have been asking myself for years: why do we work so rarely with influencers, and why are we increasingly cautious even with property operators and agencies whose role seems to begin and end with putting something online, packaging it attractively and waiting for the story to do the rest? Perhaps we are the strange ones, or perhaps they are simply cleverer than we are, because we have chosen the least glamorous part of the property business: we walk into houses, look at roofs, compare plans, ask what renovation will really cost, handle the project, check whether the numbers still make sense after furniture, utilities, professionals, taxes, delays and inevitable surprises, and then ask who will actually rent the property, who might buy it later, whether there is long-term demand, whether the place works for the person rather than just for the camera, and whether an operation that looks brilliant on day one will still look intelligent two years later.</p><p>There is another important difference, and it is one we have built into our model deliberately. When we source properties for our own clients, we normally do not work through estate agents in the conventional sense. The reason is quite simple: we want to avoid precisely the dynamic in which somebody&#8217;s incentive is to sell a property because selling the property is the transaction they are paid for. We prefer to <strong>remain on the same side of the table as the person we are working for</strong>, to look at whether that house is actually suitable, whether the numbers make sense, whether the location works for that particular person and whether there is a reason to proceed beyond the fact that somebody would quite like to close a sale.</p><p>That does not mean we never use agencies. We do, but usually in a very different situation. When a property is no longer functional to our work, no longer requires our direct involvement, or simply sits outside the type of operation we want to build, we detach it from our active model and give a local agency a mandate to sell it in the ordinary way. At that point the property becomes, quite legitimately, a conventional property sale rather than part of a broader programme involving us, a client and a territorial project. <strong>The trust is that the agency will then do what an agency is supposed to do</strong>: represent the property correctly, deal transparently with the owner, agree the price, understand who is promoting it, and <strong>not quietly insert it into commercial channels, influencer funnels or third-party propositions of which the owner knows nothing</strong>. <span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">This latest episode has made me reconsider that trust too.</span></p><p>The more you know about a property, the harder it becomes to sell it as magic. A &#8364;20,000 house can be a wonderful opportunity, but it can also become a &#8364;70,000 problem; a &#8364;1 house can be the beginning of a remarkable personal story, but it can also require years, capital, patience, professional support and a tolerance for complexity that not everyone has; a small Italian town can be perfect for one person and entirely wrong for another. None of that performs particularly well on social media, where what works much better is the opposite: look at this house, look at this price, look at what you could buy, look at what everyone else has somehow failed to notice.</p><p>And perhaps this is the most interesting part of all. A surprising number of prospective buyers do not seem particularly concerned about entering someone else&#8217;s funnel; quite the opposite, they often enjoy the feeling that they have discovered something before the rest of the market has understood it. They see a &#8364;1 house, a &#8364;20,000 townhouse or a ruin with a terrace in Sicily, and suddenly they are no longer simply looking at a property: in their heads they are already property developers, they have found the opportunity that everyone else missed, the loophole in the market, the place where ordinary economic rules have apparently stopped working just for them.</p><p>It is a psychology that the online property world has learned to monetise extraordinarily well. The house becomes content, the content becomes followers, the followers become a guide, the guide becomes a consultation, the consultation becomes property sourcing, and from there it is not difficult to move into private groups, early-access clubs, masterclasses, preferred listings, direct introductions, subscription models and all the usual layers of monetisation. At that point the language also becomes strangely familiar. There will often be promises of practical knowledge, insider access, &#8220;real&#8221; experience, no nonsense, no theory, no fluff - which is always slightly amusing, because &#8220;no fluff&#8221; has itself become one of the great pieces of fluff in the online guru economy.</p><p>The format changes, but the structure is recognisable. In one industry it is a course explaining how to build your business from Dubai, in another it is a guide explaining how to buy the cheap house nobody else has spotted, somewhere else it is a masterclass on freedom, investing, Airbnb, relocation or passive income. The implied proposition is always similar: I have understood the system, I have lived the transformation, I now have access that you do not have, and I can shorten your route to the same result.</p><p>Again, <strong>none of this is automatically wrong.</strong> People are perfectly entitled to sell knowledge, courses, guides, consulting or access. Some of those products may even be genuinely useful. The problem begins when the authority being sold becomes stronger than the underlying experience, when other people&#8217;s assets are absorbed into that authority, or when the line between documenting one&#8217;s own experience and commercially positioning oneself as a property operator becomes so blurred that nobody quite knows anymore who represents whom.</p><p>It is also where the buyer&#8217;s own desire to believe becomes part of the machinery. Once somebody has convinced themselves that they are about to make a brilliant move, caution becomes irritating. The surveyor who points out a structural problem is too negative, the person who says the renovation budget is unrealistic &#8220;doesn&#8217;t understand the potential&#8221;, and the one who asks who will actually rent the property for twelve months rather than three nights is ruining the fun. The person selling the opportunity, on the other hand, is reinforcing something much more emotionally satisfying: yes, you have spotted it; yes, you are early; yes, everybody else is overpaying while you have found the smart way in.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><strong>The influencer, the property promoter, the agent and the wannabe guru therefore have one extraordinary advantage over the people doing the actual work: they can stop the story earlier. They can stop at the moment when the house looks exciting, at the price, at the promise, at the transformation that exists mostly in somebody&#8217;s head.</strong> <strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">We, unfortunately, have to see what happens afterwards.</span></strong></p></div><p>And that distinction matters because the business model around some destinations has changed. We are not interested in convincing somebody that they should move to Mussomeli, or Sambuca, or Ollolai, or Petralia, or anywhere else. We are interested in understanding for whom a place can actually work, under what conditions, with what budget, with what degree of risk and, above all, with what chance that the person will still be happy with the decision once the novelty has disappeared. Those are very different questions, and sometimes the most useful thing we can tell someone is that a particular house, or even a particular destination, is probably not right for them.</p><p>That is a terrible influencer strategy. It may, however, be quite a good territorial strategy.</p><p>Because if somebody buys, renovates badly, becomes disappointed and leaves six months later, what exactly have we achieved? One more sale, one more video, one more &#8220;success story&#8221; for a few weeks, but no real new resident, no stable economic activity, no long-term use and no meaningful impact.</p><p>Mussomeli is particularly interesting in this respect because it has been, and remains, one of the most effective destinations in the world at generating attention around low-cost property and &#8364;1 homes. It has attracted television crews, international newspapers, foreign buyers, investors, visitors and people who genuinely chose to spend meaningful periods of their lives there, and it would be absurd to deny the value of that visibility. The problem begins when the story becomes stronger than the place itself, when the local ecosystem starts revolving less around whether people remain and more around keeping the attention machine moving: the next international buyer, the next cheap house, the next dramatic before-and-after, the next social post, the next guide, the next consultation, the next &#8220;exclusive opportunity&#8221;.</p><p>That kind of ecosystem can work extremely well for some operators. It can work for agencies, it can work for creators, and it can work for people selling services around the dream. For us, it becomes less interesting if what we are trying to build requires continuity, coherence, repeatable economics, long-term occupation and people who are still there after the cameras have gone.</p><p>This is also one of the reasons why we are now liquidating some of our own properties in Mussomeli. Not because the properties are somehow &#8220;bad&#8221;, and not because Mussomeli has no value, but because some of those assets are no longer functional to the work we want to do and, more broadly, because we have come to realise that our model is becoming difficult to grow there. Once a property is no longer part of that model, we are perfectly happy for it to be sold in the conventional market; what we do not want is for it to be silently absorbed into a commercial narrative, a platform or a proposition we have never chosen and with which we do not wish to be associated.</p><p>Our model requires control, selection, time and a very close match between property, person and place. It requires being able to say no: no, this house does not work; no, that renovation budget is not realistic; no, that purchase price does not make sense; no, this destination is probably not right for you. The market of hype works much better with yes: yes, you can do it; yes, it is a bargain; yes, you are early; yes, this is your opportunity.</p><p>Perhaps that is why <strong>we often seem less clever. </strong>While others sell possibility, we keep looking at outcomes; while others sell the dream of becoming a property developer, we keep asking whether the development actually works; while others optimise for the moment somebody says, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe this house is so cheap&#8221;, we are far more interested in whether, two years later, that same person would still say, &#8220;I would do it again&#8221;.</p><p>This is also at the heart of <em><strong><a href="https://www.itsjournal.com/t/nomag-research-books">Debunking Italy&#8217;s &#8364;1 House Effect</a></strong></em><strong> <span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(it&#8217;s not a course, it&#8217;s a boring research, packed with real data - and it&#8217;s free for our subscribers)</span>.</strong> The point was never to say that &#8364;1 houses are nonsense, because they are not. In many places they have been an extraordinary territorial marketing idea, capable of putting small Italian towns on international television, into newspapers and into conversations that would never otherwise have happened. But attention and transformation are not the same thing. A place can become famous without becoming more liveable, it can receive thousands of enquiries without generating thousands of new residents, it can sell dozens of houses without creating a functioning residential market, and it can produce millions of views without producing a stable local ecosystem.</p><p>Somewhere between attention and transformation, a new commercial layer has emerged: the business of selling the idea that everyone can reproduce the story. Buy the guide, join the group, book the call, find the house, change your life. It is a beautifully efficient funnel, and almost inevitably it will be described as practical, authentic and, naturally, &#8220;no fluff&#8221;.</p><p>Real life is usually less cooperative. It includes paperwork, builders, title checks, delays, cost overruns, utilities, different tax systems, different legal assumptions, different ideas of what &#8220;renovated&#8221; means, different ideas of what something is worth, and one particularly inconvenient fact: eventually, the market sends the bill.</p><p>This is why we are cautious not only with influencers but also with agencies and operators whose role is primarily promotional. We need to know what happens after the lead, after the viewing, after the signature, after the renovation starts, after the first winter and after the excitement disappears, because that is the least glamorous part, but it is also the only part that ultimately tells you whether the operation was good.</p><p>The recent discovery that some of our own Mussomeli properties were being promoted through channels and commercial mechanisms we had never discussed made this unusually tangible. It was uncomfortable, particularly because some of those properties are precisely the ones we are considering disposing of as they no longer fit the direction of our work. <strong>There is a certain irony in that: someone else may be able to market them more enthusiastically than we can, perhaps because we know them too well.</strong> We know the costs, the context, the limitations, what worked, what did not and why some assets that once made sense no longer fit the model we are trying to build. That makes for worse hype, but hopefully for better decisions.</p><p>And perhaps this is ultimately the real difference between the two worlds. Some people are selling the dream of becoming a property developer, sometimes packaged as a guide, a masterclass or a supposedly no-nonsense shortcut to the market; we are trying to understand whether the development actually works. Some are selling access, while we are trying to build something repeatable. Some are selling the thrill of discovering a place before everyone else, while we are trying to understand what remains when everyone else eventually arrives.</p><p><strong>Perhaps we are less good at creating FOMO because we spend too much time seeing what happens when the FOMO wears off.</strong></p><p>But that, increasingly, is exactly the part of the job that interests us.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test before you move: prima di trasferirsi in montagna (e in Italia), bisognerebbe poterla provare]]></title><description><![CDATA[C&#8217;&#232; una frase che prima o poi pronuncia quasi chiunque passi una bella settimana in un piccolo paese italiano: &#171;Io qui ci vivrei&#187;.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/test-before-you-move-prima-di-trasferirsi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/test-before-you-move-prima-di-trasferirsi</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:48:41 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Il problema &#232; che normalmente viene pronunciata dopo sette giorni durante i quali non abbiamo dovuto cercare una casa per dodici mesi, capire dove sia il pediatra, organizzare gli spostamenti quotidiani, scoprire quanto costa riscaldare un edificio a gennaio o spiegare a un ufficio pubblico che s&#236;, abbiamo davvero bisogno di quella cosa che stiamo chiedendo da tre settimane.</p><p>Insomma, scegliamo spesso il luogo nel quale immaginiamo di vivere sulla base dell&#8217;unica esperienza che non assomiglia affatto al viverci: la vacanza.</p><p>Per questo mi interessa parecchio quello che sta succedendo in Valle Soana, in Piemonte, dove tra il 20 settembre e il 18 ottobre 45 persone stanno trascorrendo due o quattro settimane nei comuni di Ingria, Ronco Canavese e Valprato Soana partecipando a VIHTA, un progetto di wild working e residenza temporanea.</p><p>Le candidature sono state 762, provenienti da 39 Paesi. I partecipanti selezionati hanno fra 25 e 59 anni e comprendono professionisti, freelance, ricercatori e due famiglie con bambini. Non sono quindi semplicemente turisti invitati a vedere quanto sia bella la montagna. Continuano a lavorare mentre sono l&#236; e provano, almeno in parte, la quotidianit&#224; del territorio.</p><p>&#200; una differenza non da poco.</p><p>Per chi pensa realmente di trasferirsi in Italia, il principio potrebbe essere molto pi&#249; utile di centinaia di campagne di attrazione: <strong>prima prova a viverci</strong>. Non visitare semplicemente il borgo il sabato pomeriggio. Alzati il luned&#236; mattina, lavora, fai la spesa, scopri come funzionano i trasporti, guarda quanto dista il servizio che ti serve, parla con chi vive l&#236; tutto l&#8217;anno e prova a capire se la vita che immagini &#232; compatibile con la vita che esiste.</p><p>Una specie di <em>test before you move</em>.</p><p>Naturalmente VIHTA non simula ancora completamente la vita ordinaria. La quota per quattro settimane &#232; di 300 euro e comprende alloggio, utenze e coworking, oltre a diverse attivit&#224; e occasioni d&#8217;incontro. Due settimane costano 200 euro. Per i bambini pi&#249; piccoli la partecipazione &#232; gratuita ed &#232; prevista anche la possibilit&#224; di frequentare la scuola locale.</p><p>Quindi il primo grande problema che normalmente incontra chi pensa di trasferirsi &#8212; trovare una casa e pagarla alle condizioni reali &#8212; &#232; stato deliberatamente rimosso.</p><p>Ma anche questo pu&#242; avere senso, purch&#233; sappiamo distinguere le fasi.</p><p>La prima domanda &#232;: <strong>questo luogo mi interessa abbastanza da immaginare di tornarci?</strong></p><p>La seconda &#232;: <strong>riesco realmente a costruirci una vita?</strong></p><p>Fra le due domande c&#8217;&#232; un abisso.</p><p>Ed &#232; un abisso che conosciamo bene studiando persone che arrivano in Italia. Il nostro Paese non sembra avere particolari difficolt&#224; a farsi desiderare. Attira turisti, aspiranti residenti, digital nomads, pensionati, persone interessate alle case a un euro e professionisti che, quando viene offerta loro l&#8217;occasione di lavorare per qualche settimana da un borgo italiano, rispondono in migliaia.</p><p>A Ollolai, in Sardegna, il programma rivolto agli smart worker raccolse oltre mille candidature gi&#224; nella sua prima fase e il Comune arriv&#242; successivamente a parlare di decine di migliaia di richieste. Anche l&#236; l&#8217;offerta era volutamente molto conveniente: il partecipante selezionato poteva vivere per un mese in una casa privata pagando simbolicamente un euro di affitto.</p><p>Tutto questo dimostra una cosa che ormai dovrebbe essere piuttosto chiara: <strong>l&#8217;interesse per vivere temporaneamente in Italia &#232; enorme</strong>.</p><p>La questione pi&#249; difficile &#232; ci&#242; che succede dopo.</p><p>Per questo esperimenti come VIHTA potrebbero diventare ancora pi&#249; interessanti se introducessero un secondo livello. Chi, dopo le prime settimane, dice &#171;io qui tornerei&#187; potrebbe essere invitato a farlo in condizioni progressivamente pi&#249; normali: non pi&#249; tre settimane ma due o tre mesi, non necessariamente gratis o fortemente agevolati, una casa trovata sul mercato, maggiore autonomia nella gestione della vita quotidiana.</p><p>A quel punto il territorio smetterebbe di chiedere semplicemente &#171;ti &#232; piaciuto?&#187; e inizierebbe a chiedere &#171;potresti davvero vivere qui?&#187;.</p><p>Sono due domande molto diverse.</p><p>E potrebbe emergere che qualcuno non vuole trasferirsi ma tornerebbe ogni anno per qualche mese. Benissimo. Qualcun altro potrebbe decidere di cercare una casa. Un&#8217;altra persona potrebbe scoprire che la distanza dall&#8217;ospedale &#232; incompatibile con le sue esigenze. Una famiglia potrebbe amare la scuola ma trovare problematica la mobilit&#224;. Un professionista potrebbe invece scoprire che proprio l&#236; riesce a lavorare meglio e decidere di fermarsi pi&#249; a lungo.</p><p>Tutti risultati utili.</p><p>Anche decidere di non trasferirsi &#232; un buon risultato, se la decisione arriva dopo aver realmente provato.</p><p>Forse dovremmo smettere di misurare i programmi di attrazione soltanto in base a quante persone &#8220;rimangono&#8221; e cominciare a costruire una sorta di percorso progressivo. Prima conoscere il territorio. Poi viverci qualche settimana. Poi, se l&#8217;interesse sopravvive alla prima esperienza, tornarci per un periodo pi&#249; lungo e in condizioni pi&#249; realistiche. Soltanto dopo decidere se trasferirsi, comprare una casa o costruirvi una parte stabile della propria vita.</p><p>Non sarebbe nemmeno necessario che tutti arrivassero all&#8217;ultimo passaggio.</p><p>Una persona che trascorre tre mesi ogni anno nello stesso territorio non &#232; un residente, ma non &#232; nemmeno pi&#249; un turista qualsiasi. Compra, affitta, crea relazioni, usa servizi, spesso porta altre persone. Pu&#242; avere un impatto economico e sociale reale senza modificare la propria residenza anagrafica.</p><p>&#200; anche per questo che VIHTA va osservato senza chiedergli immediatamente di risolvere lo spopolamento. &#200; iniziato da pochi giorni. Prima vediamo come va.</p><p>Se tra sei mesi alcuni partecipanti saranno tornati spontaneamente, avremo imparato qualcosa. Se qualcuno cercher&#224; una casa, qualcosa in pi&#249;. Se una famiglia comincer&#224; a considerare seriamente un trasferimento, sar&#224; un altro segnale ancora. E se tutti diranno che l&#8217;esperienza &#232; stata bellissima ma che preferiscono continuare a vivere altrove, avremo comunque ottenuto un&#8217;informazione che una fotografia scattata durante una vacanza non avrebbe mai potuto darci.</p><p>Il principio, alla fine, &#232; molto semplice: quando stiamo per prendere una decisione importante normalmente cerchiamo di provarla prima.</p><p>Forse dovremmo farlo anche con i luoghi nei quali immaginiamo di vivere.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post Office Errors]]></title><description><![CDATA[By: Rosemary Beard]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/post-office-errors</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/post-office-errors</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:46:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>There was only one counter open in the post office. I sighed, I only wanted to post a birthday card to my sister, this could take some time. Still, there were only three people ahead of me in the queue, allow five minutes each, in 20 minutes I could be out of here. The first elderly lady was drawing out her pension, and her husband&#8217;s pension, and her neighbour&#8217;s pension, she wasn&#8217;t well enough to come in person. There followed a detailed discussion of the neighbour&#8217;s symptoms, sighs of sympathy, tutting about how hard it was to find a good badante (carer), suggestions from several of the other people waiting about who might be able to help. I shifted from foot to foot and tried not to think about the other things I had hoped to get done after posting the card to my sister. Finally, the cashier started counting out the money. The old lady watched, beady eyed. The money was pushed under the counter window. With trembling hands the old lady reached for the money and then very slowly began to count it, note by note. Satisfied that the cashier hadn&#8217;t cheated her she reached slowly into her bag and drew out her purse and stowed the money away.</p><p>As she turned from the counter I sighed with relief, one down, two to go, if only I had remembered that it was pension day, please don&#8217;t let the other two people in the queue be collecting pensions. No, they were too young, surely they would be quicker?</p><p>The next person was called forward. The normal courtesies were exchanged. They wanted to pay a bill. This always took a while but if it was just one bill&#8230;? The cashier took the paperwork and studied it carefully then proceeded to type information from the bill into the computer. Time passed. Finally things whirred into action, now to actually pay the bill. At this point and only at this point did the man reach slowly into his back pocket and fumble for his wallet. Once found he carefully flipped through the various segments to find his card.</p><p>By now I was practically hopping from foot to foot. Still only one person to go. To my huge relief the next request was relatively straightforward, just posting a parcel. The parcel had to go through the special airlock at the end of the counter, be weighed and the correct postage calculated, the postage label printed, affixed and then paid for, but now finally it was going to be my turn. I took one step forward. A younger women darted up to the counter &#8220;scusi, solo una domanda&#8230;.&#8221;  To my anguished astonishment, rather than telling her to wait her turn the cashier, sternly waved me back behind the yellow line and listened attentively to the question. Only it wasn&#8217;t a question it was a whole long saga about a parcel that should have been delivered to her father only he was too slow to get to the door and the post person had left a note saying the parcel would be returned to the post office. Was it here? A long discussion ensued, what was the address? When had it been delivered? If it was this morning it might not have got back to the post office yet. She wasn&#8217;t sure but her father had rung her in a panic, could the counter clerk just check? Did she know what was in the parcel? What size it might be? Because big parcels go in the back room and small parcels are locked in the cupboard.</p><p>Eventually the parcel was located. Of course it had to be signed for. And then go through the airlock.</p><p>Finally, finally it was my turn. I strode forward, thrust my envelope under the window and gabbled, just a stamp for Canada please. The counter clerk scowled. How rude! No good morning, no discussion about the weather, the health of her mother, honestly these foreigners have no manners! Too late I realised my mistake. In my haste and with limited Italian I had used &#8216;voglio&#8217; (I want) not &#8216;vorrei&#8217; (I would like). I was used to it being polite to take up as little time as possible in a queue, here it is rude not to engage in pleasantries before making your request. The final few minutes I was in the post office were undertaken in a frosty silence. Chastened by my cultural faux pas I slunk from the post office, vowing that my brother would have to make do with a virtual card when his birthday came round.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mendrisio, una città dove la vita funziona più facilmente]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mendreasy: vivere, lavorare e trovare il proprio posto]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/mendrisio-una-citta-dove-la-vita</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/mendrisio-una-citta-dove-la-vita</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:09:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bcab1b6-5a99-40b7-bd92-9b03abeeb343_946x530.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;01ef9730-b499-4557-9b80-a70b3a93a1a0&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><em><strong>Mendreasy: vivere, lavorare e trovare il proprio posto</strong></em></p><p>Ci sono citt&#224; che cercano di attrarre nuovi residenti, professionisti, imprenditori e famiglie alzando il volume: grandi promesse, grandi slogan, grandi campagne. E poi ci sono luoghi che scelgono una strada pi&#249; ponderata, pi&#249; concreta, forse anche pi&#249; &#8220;svizzera&#8221;: farsi conoscere attraverso ci&#242; che riescono a rendere possibile nella vita di ogni giorno.</p><p><strong>Mendrisio appartiene a questa seconda categoria.</strong></p><p>In questo video siamo andati a scoprirla partendo da un luogo simbolico: il Museo d&#8217;arte della citt&#224;, dentro un&#8217;opera di <strong>Felice Varini</strong>. Non &#232; solo una cornice culturale, ma quasi una chiave di lettura. A Mendrisio cultura, territorio, lavoro e quotidianit&#224; non sono compartimenti separati: convivono e diventano parte della stessa esperienza.</p><p>Con <strong>Valentina Rossi</strong>, responsabile dell&#8217;Ufficio sviluppo economico della Citt&#224; di Mendrisio, abbiamo parlato di cosa significhi scegliere un luogo in cui vivere, lavorare, studiare o sviluppare un&#8217;attivit&#224;.</p><p>Il paesaggio ha certamente un ruolo: la Svizzera italiana, il Canton Ticino, la vicinanza a Como e Milano, i collegamenti con Zurigo e la Svizzera interna, il lago, le montagne, i vigneti, la cultura e due siti riconosciuti dall&#8217;UNESCO nel territorio. Ma la parola che torna nella conversazione &#232; un&#8217;altra: <strong>semplicit&#224;</strong>.</p><p>Mendrisio &#232; una citt&#224; di circa 16.000 abitanti che cerca di combinare servizi, prossimit&#224;, sicurezza e relazioni senza rinunciare a una dimensione umana. Una famiglia pu&#242; immaginare una quotidianit&#224; pi&#249; semplice; un imprenditore pu&#242; trovare un territorio che considera la sua iniziativa una risorsa. E chi arriva pu&#242; trovare informazioni, orientamento e supporto per muovere i primi passi.</p><p>&#200; anche il ruolo dell&#8217;Ufficio sviluppo economico e dell&#8217;iniziativa <strong>Mendreasy</strong>. Il nome dice gi&#224; molto: Mendrisio + easy. Un primo punto di accesso per chi vuole capire come vivere, lavorare, studiare o avviare un&#8217;attivit&#224; in citt&#224;.</p><p>Forse &#232; questa la chiave di Mendrisio: non promettere una vita straordinaria, ma costruire le condizioni perch&#233; la vita di ogni giorno funzioni.</p><p>Guarda il video per scoprire una Mendrisio fatta di opportunit&#224;, relazioni e qualit&#224; della vita.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://mendreasy.swiss/mt&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Mendreasy&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://mendreasy.swiss/mt"><span>Mendreasy</span></a></p><p></p><p>Informazioni: <a href="mailto:welcome@mendrisio.ch">welcome@mendrisio.ch</a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonnamaxxing. Must Italian grandmothers perform being Italian?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Sunday Times story about pasta-making nonne in Rome raises a question about what visitors want from Italy - and what the women themselves get from the encounter.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/nonnamaxxing-must-italian-grandmothers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/nonnamaxxing-must-italian-grandmothers</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matteo Cerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:08:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1AVY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34072ec9-102a-4a0a-a9b0-08acad21819a_2360x1326.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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There are hugs, songs and affectionate nicknames. A journalist from <em><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/europe-travel/italy/rome/grandma-guide-nonna-rome-cookery-bm0s8lkr7">The Sunday Times</a></em> joins the class, and soon the scene has a name: <em><strong>nonnamaxxing</strong></em>, apparently one of travel&#8217;s new trends.</p><p>I can see why someone would book it. I can also see why an Italian might wince.</p><p>How often must we play the version of ourselves that visitors already recognise? The grandmother with flour on her hands, the expansive gestures, the noisy table: these things exist. But once arranged as a two-hour experience near the Pantheon, are we sharing a part of Italian life or performing someone else&#8217;s idea of it?</p><p>The distinction matters. According to GetYourGuide, searches for classes hosted by grandmothers rose by more than 50 per cent between 2023 and 2025. The company does not give the underlying numbers, so the figure alone cannot tell us how large this market has become. It can tell us that a travel platform sees a promising story to sell. The <em>Times</em> writer attended as its guest. None of that means she invented the warmth she describes; it means we should read the language of a &#8220;viral trend&#8221; with some care.</p><p>The women in her article are harder to dismiss than the marketing. They come from Palombara Sabina, outside Rome, and have known one another for years. Chiara Nicolanti began the project with her own grandmother before inviting other local women to teach. One of the participants, Rosella, says people expect them to stay at home; working with visitors is her way of pushing back. Renzia, who spent much of her life working in the fields, speaks of meeting people from around the world.</p><p>That deserves to be taken seriously. Too often we praise older women&#8217;s knowledge while assuming they will give it away: to children, grandchildren, neighbours, anyone who needs feeding or looking after. A class can give that knowledge an audience and a value. It can give its teachers colleagues, income and the pleasure of learning something new themselves.</p><p>Still, affection is not the same as equality. A visitor may leave saying, &#8220;She felt just like my grandmother,&#8221; without learning much about the woman in front of them. A business may celebrate her skill while asking her to sing, hug and act out a ready-made idea of Italy. The questions I would ask of any such experience are simple: Do the women want to be there? Are they paid fairly? Can they decide how to teach and how much of themselves to share? Would the class still be compelling if they declined to perform the familiar <em>nonna</em> character?</p><p>Nor should &#8220;authentic&#8221; mean untouched by commerce. Italians have always cooked for other people, taught skills and found ways to earn a living from what they know. A ticket does not make an encounter false. But neither does an apron make it genuine.</p><p>Perhaps there really is growing demand for time with people of another generation. That would be welcome. Perhaps travel platforms have also found a highly photogenic way to package it. Both can be true.</p><p>The best thing about the <em>Times</em> story is not that it confirms a new trend. It is the moment the grandmothers speak for themselves. They are not there merely to preserve a visitor&#8217;s picture of the past. They are doing something with their present.</p><p>If we want to meet Italy through its older women, we should be curious about their lives beyond the pasta table. And if we want more initiatives like this, their freedom, pay and enjoyment matter at least as much as our photographs.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pollica Is a FAO Food Hero. The Hero Is an Entire Community]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the fishing boats of Acciaroli to a shared table in New York, a Cilento community shows why the Mediterranean Diet is a living heritage.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/pollica-is-a-fao-food-hero-the-hero</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/pollica-is-a-fao-food-hero-the-hero</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:52:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jpmZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45672df7-14d7-4855-882e-ca2ac17a6880_1024x763.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Further inland, families tend olive trees, vegetable gardens and local seeds. In kitchens across the municipality of Pollica, ingredients become meals through knowledge handed down over generations.</p><p>These are the people the <strong>Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)</strong> has chosen to celebrate. Ahead of World Food Day on 16 October, it named <strong>the community of Pollica</strong> a <em>Food Hero</em> for keeping the heritage of the Mediterranean Diet alive.</p><p>The recognition was announced in New York by <strong>Maurizio Martina, FAO Deputy Director-General</strong>, during <em>Food for Health &#8226; Food for Earth</em>, a conference held at New York University and organised by the Future Food Institute during United Nations General Assembly week. It belongs to a whole community: fishers, farmers, cooks, artisans, families, children, researchers and local institutions.</p><p>FAO&#8217;s portrait of Pollica makes that collective effort tangible. It describes the <em>menaica</em>, an ancient method of fishing for anchovies still practised along this stretch of the Cilento coast, alongside the cultivation of figs, legumes, vegetables and local seeds. Each practice depends on someone knowing how to do it &#8212; and having someone to pass that knowledge to.</p><p>The Mediterranean Diet is often presented internationally as a healthy way to eat. Its recognition by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage goes further. It encompasses fishing and farming, preparation and preservation, hospitality and the shared meal. Pollica, which includes Acciaroli and Pioppi, is one of the Italian communities emblematic of that heritage.</p><p>Pioppi also has a place in the history of its international reputation. <strong>Ancel and Margaret Keys</strong> spent long periods there, studying the relationship between local eating habits, ways of life and health. Their work helped bring worldwide attention to the Mediterranean Diet. The FAO recognition turns the spotlight back towards the people whose everyday lives sustain the practices behind the name.</p><p>&#8220;<strong>This recognition puts people and community at the centre,</strong>&#8221; says <strong>Stefano Pisani, Mayor of Pollica</strong>, in comments accompanying the announcement. For Pisani, the Diet remains a living heritage because residents continue to practise, protect and pass it on.</p><h2>A Cilento table in New York</h2><p>Pollica&#8217;s story has also travelled to New York through <strong>CONVIVIUM</strong>, an East Village programme created by the Future Food Institute during UN General Assembly and Climate Week. Around its tables, researchers, policymakers, businesses and community leaders meet to discuss food, water, public health, climate and biodiversity.</p><p><strong>Sara Roversi, President of the Future Food Institute</strong>, describes sitting together as a way to share knowledge and responsibility as well as food. It is the idea of <em>gastrodiplomacy</em> in a practical form: a meal creates room for conversations and relationships that a conference agenda alone may not produce.</p><p>The New York gathering reflects something familiar in Pollica. A shared table is a place where neighbours meet, children listen and knowledge travels. Bringing that experience to an international audience does not mean every place should copy the Cilento. It offers a question other communities can ask for themselves: <strong>who keeps our food heritage alive, and what do they need to continue?</strong></p><p>The recognition comes as the world prepares for the <strong>first International Day of the Mediterranean Diet on 16 November 2026</strong>, established by the United Nations. Between World Food Day in October and that new observance in November, Pollica offers a reminder of what such celebrations are for. A heritage can be studied and honoured, but its future depends on people being able to live it.</p><p>In Pollica, the Food Hero is a community &#8212; and that may be the most useful part of its story for the rest of the world.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE MEETING IS THE MESSAGE - Richard Harris, l’inglese (maremmano) che vuole insegnarci a usare di nuovo le piazze]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE MEETING IS THE MESSAGE - Richard Harris, the Englishman (from Maremma, Tuscany) who wants to teach us how to use public squares again.]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/the-meeting-is-the-message-richard</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/the-meeting-is-the-message-richard</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matteo Cerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:15:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!loBM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F69938b06-5d8e-43b9-95ca-445cdbac12e2_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em>Richard da anni organizza incontri a Grosseto, dove &#232; ormai profondamente radicato. Ora prova a trasformare una sua convinzione in un progetto pi&#249; grande: rendere pi&#249; facile incontrarsi, anche con chi non conosciamo.</em></p><p>C&#8217;&#232; qualcosa di curioso in <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Richard&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:23312201,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0c96ba9a-3892-465c-8222-dd046347cc5b_144x144.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;db69e46b-475f-4119-b101-d384dd7cbd70&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Harris: &#232; un inglese che sembra aver preso la piazza italiana pi&#249; sul serio di molti italiani.</p><p>A Grosseto non si &#232; limitato ad abitare. Ha messo radici, conosciuto persone, organizzato incontri, fatto domande sulla citt&#224;. E a un certo punto deve essersi accorto di un paradosso: abbiamo piazze bellissime, ma non sempre le usiamo per ci&#242; che le ha rese importanti. Ci passiamo, ci sediamo con gli amici, magari ci incontriamo per caso. Pi&#249; raramente ci fermiamo a parlare con qualcuno che non appartiene gi&#224; al nostro giro.</p><p>Richard prova a provocare proprio questa possibilit&#224;. Con <em>L&#8217;Aperitivo parla Inglese</em>, nato nel 2018 e diventato un appuntamento a Grosseto, ha cominciato dalla cosa pi&#249; semplice: invitare le persone a trovarsi. Come racconta <a href="https://www.maremmaoggi.net/aperitivo-inglese-grosseto-movida/">MaremmaOggi</a>, al Movida si incontrano persone di et&#224;, provenienze e storie diverse. Qualcuno arriva per esercitare l&#8217;inglese. Qualcun altro per conoscere gente. Si parla anche in italiano, si gioca, si ascolta. E ogni tanto succede la cosa che Harris cerca: due persone che abitano nella stessa citt&#224;, ma probabilmente non si sarebbero mai rivolte la parola, cominciano a conoscersi.</p><p>L&#8217;aperitivo &#232; cresciuto e a Grosseto ha preso il nome di <strong>PIAZZER</strong>. Ma PIAZZER &#232; anche la piattaforma con cui Harris vuole rendere pi&#249; visibili e accessibili luoghi dove organizzare incontri, dalle piazze alle sale pubbliche. L&#8217;idea &#232; pratica: se vogliamo che le persone si incontrino, dobbiamo sapere quali spazi esistono e come possiamo usarli. Sul sito sono gi&#224; elencati luoghi in Italia e all&#8217;estero. Questo non significa che ogni piazza sia automaticamente prenotabile da chiunque: disponibilit&#224; e condizioni d&#8217;uso vanno verificate per ciascuno spazio.</p><p>Forse &#232; questo il lato pi&#249; interessante dello &#171;strano signore inglese&#187; ormai cos&#236; maremmano. Non ci sta suggerendo di importare una nuova abitudine. Ci sta chiedendo di recuperare qualcosa che associamo da sempre alla vita italiana: la piazza come luogo dove si vede chi c&#8217;&#232;, si ascolta qualcosa di inatteso e si finisce a discutere anche con chi la pensa diversamente.</p><p>Richard ha dato un nome anche alla riflessione che sta dietro a queste iniziative: <strong>Governanza</strong>. Che cosa vuol dire? Nel suo progetto indica il modo in cui una societ&#224; crea le condizioni per incontrarsi, parlare e partecipare alle decisioni. Non soltanto <em>chi</em> decide, dunque, ma <em>come</em> le persone possono entrare nella conversazione. Harris usa la parola per riunire gli incontri e gli strumenti con cui cerca di avvicinare mondi che normalmente restano separati.</p><p>&#200; un&#8217;idea che si pu&#242; discutere, naturalmente. Mettere a disposizione uno spazio non garantisce che nasca un dialogo; organizzare un aperitivo non risolve da solo le distanze sociali. 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La domanda, stavolta, &#232; molto concreta: chi pu&#242; progettare, mettere a disposizione e finanziare gli strumenti che aiutano persone e idee diverse a incontrarsi nei luoghi pubblici?</p><p>Ne parler&#242; anch&#8217;io, per ITS Italy e NOMAG, insieme a <strong>Marco Marcatili</strong> di Lombardini22 e <strong>Luca Verzichelli</strong> dell&#8217;Universit&#224; di Siena. Moderer&#224; <strong>Giulio Maria Pezzini</strong> di Zest Group. L&#8217;incontro &#232; gratuito, con prenotazione su <a href="https://governanza.it/">governanza.it</a>.</p><p>Richard Harris &#232; partito da Grosseto, da un aperitivo e da persone che forse avevano solo bisogno di un&#8217;occasione per salutarsi. Ora sta chiedendo se possiamo rendere quelle occasioni pi&#249; facili da creare, in Maremma e altrove. La domanda riguarda anche noi italiani: abbiamo inventato piazze capaci di attraversare i secoli. 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E un regalo per te.]]></title><description><![CDATA[70% di sconto sull&#8217;abbonamento annuale e un abbonamento prova a Pressreader, ma affrettati l&#8217;offerta scade il 30 settembre!]]></description><link>https://www.itsjournal.com/p/per-il-lancio-dei-nostri-libri-un</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.itsjournal.com/p/per-il-lancio-dei-nostri-libri-un</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ITS ITALY]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:05:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VtDF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e94bdec-fe79-4102-ac54-ab3c4c9aa159_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Per festeggiare, vogliamo estendere a chi ci segue da lontano un po&#8217; dello spirito della presentazione: <strong>un&#8217;offerta speciale per leggere le ricerche e un regalo PressReader da scoprire pi&#249; sotto</strong>.</p><p>Fino alle <strong>23:59 del 30 settembre 2026</strong>, puoi abbonarti a <strong>ITS Journal per un anno a &#163;15 anzich&#233; &#163;50</strong>. Sono dodici mesi al prezzo di tre mensilit&#224;.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.itsjournal.com/books2026&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Attiva l&#8217;abbonamento annuale a &#163;15&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.itsjournal.com/books2026"><span>Attiva l&#8217;abbonamento annuale a &#163;15</span></a></p><h2>Tre libri per guardare l&#8217;Italia da prospettive diverse</h2><p>Con l&#8217;abbonamento a pagamento trovi le prime tre pubblicazioni della collana <strong>in italiano e in inglese</strong>:</p><p><strong>Digital Nomad: finalmente anche in Italia&#8230; almeno per un po&#8217;</strong> si chiede perch&#233; l&#8217;Italia, pur attirando l&#8217;interesse di chi lavora da remoto, non sia ancora diventata una destinazione scelta in massa dai nomadi digitali.</p><p><strong>Il vero effetto delle case a 1 euro</strong> guarda oltre la promessa contenuta nel prezzo: che cosa accade agli immobili, quante persone arrivano e quali effetti restano nei territori?</p><p><strong>RELOCALS &#8211; risultati preliminari</strong> apre il lavoro sulle persone che scelgono di arrivare, tornare o stabilirsi in Italia. &#200; un&#8217;anteprima dei risultati, non la ricerca conclusiva.</p><p>Gli <strong>abstract rimangono gratuiti</strong> per chi &#232; iscritto alla newsletter. Chi sottoscrive l&#8217;abbonamento a pagamento pu&#242; leggere le ricerche complete disponibili per gli abbonati, oltre ai contenuti riservati di ITS Journal. RELOCALS conserva il suo carattere di anticipazione gratuita.</p><p>E il lavoro continua: <strong>le prossime ricerche che pubblicheremo per gli abbonati durante il tuo anno di iscrizione saranno comprese nell&#8217;accesso</strong>, senza un acquisto separato per ciascuna pubblicazione. Non promettiamo un numero di uscite o una data prima che le ricerche siano pronte.</p><h2>Un regalo dalla presentazione, anche se non eri con noi</h2><p>Durante la presentazione del 24 settembre abbiamo condiviso anche un&#8217;offerta di <strong>PressReader</strong>, la piattaforma digitale con cui leggere giornali e riviste di molti paesi. Ci sembrava un peccato riservarla soltanto a chi ha potuto raggiungerci di persona.</p><p><strong>Non eri l&#236;? 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un&#8217;iniziativa distinta dall&#8217;abbonamento a ITS Journal; durata e modalit&#224; di attivazione sono indicate nella pagina PressReader.</p><h2>Come funziona l&#8217;offerta ITS Journal</h2><p>Il <strong>primo anno costa &#163;15</strong>. Dopo i primi dodici mesi, l&#8217;abbonamento si rinnova al prezzo annuale ordinario di <strong>&#163;50</strong>, salvo disdetta. L&#8217;accesso ai libri tramite ITS Journal &#232; digitale e non comprende copie cartacee.</p><p>Se vuoi leggere le ricerche gi&#224; uscite e accompagnarci nelle prossime, questa offerta &#232; aperta <strong>fino alla mezzanotte del 30 settembre</strong>.</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.itsjournal.com/books2026&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Abbonati a ITS Journal: un anno a &#163;15&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.itsjournal.com/books2026"><span>Abbonati a ITS Journal: un anno a &#163;15</span></a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[L’Italia vista da chi arriva: tre ricerche, molte domande nuove]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italy through the eyes of those who arrive: three studies, new 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C&#8217;&#232; il paese in cui lavorare da remoto con una vista migliore dalla finestra. C&#8217;&#232; la casa a 1 euro che sembra risolvere tutto con una moneta. E c&#8217;&#232; l&#8217;idea di trasferirsi qui, cambiare vita e sentirsi subito a casa.</p><p>Poi qualcuno arriva davvero. Cerca una casa, prova a lavorare, incontra un comune, impara a conoscere i vicini. L&#8217;Italia della cartolina comincia a lasciare spazio a un&#8217;Italia pi&#249; interessante: quella vissuta dalle persone che hanno scelto di venire qui.</p><p><strong>Che cosa vedono del nostro Paese che noi non vediamo pi&#249;? E che cosa scoprono una volta arrivate?</strong></p><p>Sono le domande che attraversano i primi tre volumi di <strong>Nomag Research Books</strong>, ora disponibili anche su <strong>ITS Journal</strong>, in italiano e in inglese. Le ricerche nascono dal lavoro di <strong>NOMAG e ITS Italy</strong>, con <strong>We the Italians</strong> come partner del primo e del terzo volume.</p><p>ITS Italy &#232; la societ&#224; madre di NOMAG, ma le due pubblicazioni hanno linee editoriali diverse. Su ITS Journal ci interessa soprattutto ci&#242; che accade nei luoghi: l&#8217;incontro tra le aspettative di chi arriva e la vita quotidiana delle comunit&#224; che lo accolgono.</p><h3>Tre modi di guardare l&#8217;Italia da una prospettiva diversa</h3><p><em>Digital Nomad: finalmente anche in Italia&#8230; almeno per un po&#8217;?</em> parte da <strong>1.056 risposte</strong> per chiedersi chi siano le persone che possono lavorare da remoto e che cosa cerchino davvero quando prendono in considerazione l&#8217;Italia. Il sole aiuta, certo. Ma bisogna pur vivere anche il marted&#236; mattina.</p><p><em>Il vero effetto delle case a 1 euro</em> guarda oltre l&#8217;annuncio che ha fatto il giro del mondo. Che cosa succede dopo l&#8217;interesse iniziale? Quali case vengono recuperate, chi arriva e che cosa cambia per i paesi coinvolti? &#200; una ricerca di NOMAG e ITS Italy su una storia che merita pi&#249; di un titolo sorprendente.</p><p><em>RELOCALS &#8212; Risultati preliminari</em> d&#224; spazio a chi dall&#8217;estero si &#232; trasferito in Italia. Non soltanto a ci&#242; che cercava prima di partire, ma al rapporto che sta costruendo con il luogo in cui vive. I risultati sono preliminari: questa conversazione &#232; appena cominciata.</p><p>Le tre ricerche parlano di mobilit&#224;, case e nuovi abitanti. Insieme ci aiutano a fare una domanda pi&#249; grande: <strong>come sta cambiando la percezione dell&#8217;Italia quando la raccontano le persone che la scelgono, e non soltanto quelle che la visitano?</strong></p><h3>Da dove cominciare a leggere</h3><p>Se sei appena arrivato su ITS Journal, <strong>puoi iscriverti gratuitamente</strong> e leggere gli articoli di presentazione dei tre libri. Per ciascuno trovi un <strong>abstract scaricabile in italiano e in inglese</strong>: un modo per conoscere le ricerche e decidere quale approfondire.</p><p>Le <strong>edizioni digitali complete</strong>, sempre in entrambe le lingue, sono invece disponibili nella pagina <strong>Perks</strong> per gli <strong>abbonati a pagamento</strong> a ITS Journal. 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It is the place where you could work remotely with a better view from your window. It is the &#8364;1 house that seems to change your life for the price of a coin. It is the possibility of moving here and immediately feeling at home.</p><p>Then someone actually arrives. They look for a home, try to work, deal with local services and get to know their neighbours. The postcard gives way to a more interesting Italy: the one experienced by people who have chosen to live here.</p><p><strong>What do they see in the country that long-time residents may no longer notice? And what do they discover once they arrive?</strong></p><p>Those questions run through the first three volumes of <strong>Nomag Research Books</strong>, now available on <strong>ITS Journal</strong> in both English and Italian. The research grows out of the work of <strong>NOMAG and ITS Italy</strong>, with <strong>We the Italians</strong> partnering on the first and third volumes.</p><p>ITS Italy is NOMAG&#8217;s parent company, but the two publications have distinct editorial perspectives. At ITS Journal, we are particularly interested in places: where the expectations of newcomers meet the everyday lives of the communities welcoming them.</p><h3>Three ways to see Italy differently</h3><p><em>At Last, Italy&#8230; At Least Temporarily</em> draws on <strong>1,056 responses</strong> to explore who internationally mobile professionals are and what they actually want when they consider Italy. Sunshine helps, of course. But you also have to live here on a Tuesday morning.</p><p><em>Debunking Italy&#8217;s &#8364;1 House Effect</em> looks beyond the headline that travelled around the world. What happens after the initial excitement? Which homes are restored, who arrives and what changes for the towns involved? Research by NOMAG and ITS Italy examines a story that deserves more than a striking price tag.</p><p><em>RELOCALS &#8212; Preliminary Findings</em> turns to people who moved to Italy from abroad. It explores what they hoped to find and the relationships they are building with the places where they now live. These are preliminary findings: the conversation is only beginning.</p><p>The three studies deal with mobility, homes and new residents. Together, they invite a larger question: <strong>how does our understanding of Italy change when it is described by people who choose to live here, as well as those who come to visit?</strong></p><h3>Where to start reading</h3><p>If you are new to ITS Journal, <strong>you can sign up for free</strong> and read the introductory articles for all three books. Each one includes a <strong>free downloadable abstract in English and Italian</strong>, so you can explore the research before deciding what to read in full.</p><p>The <strong>complete digital editions</strong>, also available in both languages, are on the <strong>Perks</strong> page for <strong>paid ITS Journal subscribers</strong>. 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3></h3><p></p><p><strong>Publication details</strong><br><strong>NOMAG Research Books</strong> is a bilingual monographic research series published in English and Italian.<br>ISSN <strong>3153-7693</strong> (English, Online)<br>ISSN <strong>3153-7707</strong> (English, Print)<br>ISSN <strong>3153-774X</strong> (Italian, Online)<br>ISSN <strong>3153-7731</strong> (Italian, Print)<br>Published by NOMAG Media Ltd &#183; 2026</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>