Caserta

For 2025 the Department of Finance lists a municipal IRPEF surcharge for Caserta at a single rate of 0.8%; the sheet shows no exemption thresholds. Rents, prices per square metre and the transport pass are in the data.

Public housing is managed by ACER Campania, which has a department in Caserta at via Eleuterio Ruggiero 45 for property, maintenance and tenants. Applications go through a Campania Region notice on an online platform. Rents and prices are in the data.

The Comune di Caserta is based in piazza Vanvitelli; the number given on its service pages is 0823273289. The portal offers online appointment booking, assistance requests and fault reports.

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).

Caserta station is opposite the Reggia, on the Piazza Carlo di Borbone side; regional buses from Naples terminate at "Stazione FS – Reggia di Caserta". By car, exit at Caserta Nord (A1) or Caserta Sud (A30). The pass price 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.

ASL Caserta's District 12 is based in Caserta at via Paul Harris 79 and handles GP choice and revocation. The city hospital is the Sant'Anna e San Sebastiano hospital trust, with emergency medicine and an emergency room. The ASL's CUP answers on the toll-free number 800984043.

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 Caserta Chamber of Commerce, at the end of 2025 the province had 96,809 registered firms, with 5,050 registrations and 4,046 closures during the year and a growth rate of 1.03%. Trade is the largest sector (29.3%), followed by construction and agriculture. The figures are provincial; employment and unemployment are in the data.

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.

In the city the Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli has a Medicine and Surgery student office (Caserta site), and the seat of the Nursing degree is the Sant'Anna e San Sebastiano hospital trust. Right-to-study services go through ADISURC.

Besides the Royal Palace, the municipality presents three poles of the city: the medieval village of Casertavecchia on Monte Virgo, founded as a Lombard settlement; the Belvedere of San Leucio, linked to the silk colony created by Ferdinand IV; and piazza Vanvitelli, centre of the 19th-century city.

In the seismic classification of the Civil Protection Department (updated May 2025) Caserta is in zone 2. According to ISPRA IdroGEO about 20.6% of the municipal territory has high or very high landslide hazard. Temperatures, rainfall and PM10 exceedance days are in the data.

The Reggia (Royal Palace, Park, Carolino Aqueduct, San Leucio) has been a UNESCO site since 1997. Visitors see the Royal Apartments, Palatine Chapel, Court Theatre and a park of over 123 hectares with the Water Way and the English Garden; normally closed on Tuesdays.

The «Costantino Parravano» municipal theatre is the main venue for live performance, with drama, music, dance and children's theatre. Villa Vitrone, an Art Nouveau building, hosts exhibitions and talks. Piazza Vanvitelli hosts public events and the village of Casertavecchia festivals and historical re-enactments.