Arezzo

For 2025 the Department of Finance lists for Arezzo a four-bracket municipal IRPEF surcharge, from 0.48% to 0.79%, with an exemption for taxable income up to 13,500 euros. Rents, prices and the pass are in the data.

Public housing in the municipalities of the Arezzo LODE is managed by Arezzo Casa S.p.A.; each Comune publishes a call for the ranking at least every four years (regional law 2/2019). The Comune di Arezzo's call for the rent contribution was reserved for people over 65 who had stopped working and for households with disabled members, with online-only applications. Rents and prices are in the data.

The Comune's website has sections on registry and civil status, change of residence and registry removals, certificates and the waste tax (TARI). Appointments are booked at appuntamenti.comune.arezzo.it; the switchboard answers on 0575 3770.

To enter with a dog, cat or ferret you need a microchip, an EU pet passport or health certificate and a valid rabies vaccination. Mandatory registration in the regional pet register, lead at all times and a muzzle to hand. Pets allowed on trains under Trenitalia rules and in apartment buildings by law.

Rules depend on who is arriving: EU/EEA/Swiss citizens (no visa, registration with the Comune after three months), non-EU citizens for stays up to 90 days (Schengen rule, type C visa where required) and for long stays (national type D visa and a residence permit within eight working days of arrival).

Urban service is run by Autolinee Toscane with the "urbano capoluogo" ticket; line U is mixed-fare. The Comune issues permits for ZTL A and B: residents of the walled city have free circulation in ZTL A with no time limits. The pass is in the data.

Euro, cards accepted almost everywhere, a legal cash limit. Anyone living in Italy for most of the year is tax resident and taxed on worldwide income under three IRPEF brackets; specific regimes exist for the self-employed (forfettario), inbound workers, foreign pensioners and new residents. Contributions go to INPS; annual return with the 730 or Redditi form.

Arezzo is served by Azienda USL Toscana sud est: the city hospital is San Donato (via Pietro Nenni 20, switchboard 0575 2551). The CUP call centre answers on 0575 379100, 0564 972191 and 0577 767676; out-of-hours doctor on 116117, active in the province of Arezzo since 21 October 2024.

Non-EU pensioners enter with the elective residence visa, EU pensioners through free movement; public healthcare is accessible by compulsory or voluntary registration. Optional 7% regime on foreign income for those moving to small southern municipalities. Cheap houses in villages, services concentrated in cities.

According to the Arezzo-Siena Chamber of Commerce the province had 35,145 registered firms at the end of 2024 and exported about 15.6 billion euro, almost half in jewellery and goldsmithing. In 2024 provincial unemployment was 4.2% and employment 70.3%. The job centre for the Arezzo area is at viale Piero della Francesca 13.

A VAT number (partita IVA) from the Agenzia delle Entrate for freelancers; for businesses the Comunicazione Unica to the Registro delle Imprese, which also notifies the Agenzia, INPS, INAIL and SUAP. Main forms: sole proprietorship, SNC/SAS, SRL and SRLS, SPA. Compulsory PEC, annual chamber fee, e-invoicing. Invitalia incentives; non-EU citizens need a self-employment permit or the investor visa.

The University of Siena has its Pionta campus in Arezzo, at viale Cittadini 33, with bachelor's and master's courses in the humanities, education, languages and law, some health-profession degrees and economics and chemistry courses that can be followed in synchronous mode.

The municipal statute ties Arezzo's identity to its municipal history, which it dates to the 12th century, gives a territory of 384.53 km² and places the Comune's seat in Palazzo dei Priori. The coat of arms is a rearing black horse on a white field; the mayor chairs the Giostra del Saracino institution. The statute does not list neighbourhoods or frazioni.

Arezzo is in seismic zone 2 in the Civil Protection classification (May 2025). According to ISPRA IdroGEO, 16.3% of residents live in medium-hazard flood areas and 1.6% in high or very high landslide-hazard areas. In 2024 the city's two ARPAT stations stayed below the maximum number of PM10 exceedances. Temperatures and rainfall are in the data.

The regional tourism portal points in Arezzo to Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross frescoes in San Francesco, the Cathedral, Piazza Grande with Vasari's loggia, the Pieve di Santa Maria, the Medici Fortress, the Roman amphitheatre and Giorgio Vasari's House Museum. Piazza Grande hosts the Giostra del Saracino and the Antiques Fair.

The Comune runs the Fiera Antiquaria, with twelve editions a year in 2026, a municipal calendar of festivals and village fairs, and grants for recreational, sports and music activities by people aged 14 to 35.