Foggia

Foggia levies a municipal IRPEF surcharge at a single 0.8% rate. ATAF offers discounted passes for students, minimum-pension holders, people with disabilities and low ISEE incomes, and runs pay parking with an annual residents' permit. Rents, OMI prices and the monthly pass are in the data.

Public housing in the province is managed by ARCA Capitanata, the regional housing agency, based in Foggia at via Romolo Caggese 2. For students, ADISU Puglia has four residences in the city (counting the extension of the "Francesco Marcone"), allocated through a competition. OMI rents and prices are in the data.

The Comune di Foggia portal organises services by category, with an online portal for local taxes. Waste is collected by AMIU Puglia, with a service information page linked from the municipal website. ATAF runs urban buses and car parks.

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).

Foggia is served by long-distance and regional trains. Urban and suburban buses and car parks are run by ATAF; Ferrovie del Gargano runs trains to Lucera and Peschici and regional and long-distance buses. For air travel the University points to Bari airport; by car the city is reached from the A14 and A16.

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.

Foggia hosts the headquarters of ASL Foggia (via Michele Protano 13) and Health District 60 at piazza della Libertà 1. The city hospital is the «Policlinico Foggia» university hospital (the Ospedali Riuniti), at viale Luigi Pinto 1; the ASL's own hospitals are in San Severo, Cerignola and Manfredonia. Phone booking line 800 466222.

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.

The Foggia Chamber of Commerce's statistical dashboard on the 2024 accounts of companies in the province shows a fabric made almost entirely of micro-enterprises, with trade, construction and business services as the largest sectors. The Foggia job centre, run by the regional agency ARPAL Puglia, is at via San Severo 71/79.

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 Foggia was formally established by ministerial decree on 5 August 1999, after a decade as a branch of the University of Bari. It has seven departments in city sites reachable from the station, with Medicine at the Policlinico Riuniti and Agriculture in via Napoli. In 2026 UNHCR recognised the work of the University and ADISU Foggia on refugee integration.

A city of the Tavoliere marked by two destructions, the 1731 earthquake and the 1943 bombings, for which it received the gold medal for military valour in 2007. Its monumental landmark is the 12th-century cathedral; beneath the centre lies a network of underground spaces.

In the city, ARPA Puglia's regional network measures air quality at the via Rosati background station (PM10, PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide and benzene); ozone is measured at other stations in the province. ARPA Puglia publishes a monthly bulletin for the province. Temperatures, rainfall and PM10 exceedances are in the data.

In the city, the 12th-century cathedral with its Romanesque façades and the network of underground spaces, starting with the San Domenico hypogeum. About 12 km away, the Bosco dell'Incoronata regional nature park with the sanctuary of the Madonna dell'Incoronata. By Ferrovie del Gargano train you reach Lucera and the Gargano.

The Teatro Umberto Giordano runs a drama and dance season from November to April, organised by the Comune with Puglia Culture. The Campi Diomedei are a 23-hectare urban park in the centre; there is also the Parco San Felice. The civic museum is in Palazzo Arpi; the municipal stadium is the Zaccheria.