Lodi

For 2025 the Dipartimento delle Finanze reports a tiered municipal IRPEF surtax for Lodi: exemption up to 17,000 euro, 0.73% up to 28,000, 0.78% from 28,000.01 to 50,000, 0.8% above 50,000 (resolution no. 18 of 26 February 2025, modification). Rents, prices and the transport pass in the data.

Public housing in Lodi is run by ALER Pavia-Lodi, which states that applying for a public home in Lombardy is done online. The Comune has a thematic area «Sociale e Politiche abitative». Rents and prices in the data.

In Lodi, recycling is door-to-door and run by Aprica, with calendars by zone, the toll-free number 800 437 678, the PULIamo app, neighbourhood eco-islands for residents and a recycling platform on strada Vecchia Cremonese. Electronic ID card by booking and a dedicated page on changing residence.

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).

The historic centre is protected by a ZTL with electronic gate control; Lodi station has five platforms, a bus stop, covered bike parking and charging points. For travel within the province there is the regional pass «Io viaggio ovunque in provincia». Monthly price 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.

Lodi and its province fall under ASST Lodi, within ATS Città Metropolitana di Milano. The hospital is at largo Donatori del Sangue 1; the CUP has desks at the hospital and GP choice is made at the Casa di Comunità in viale Savoia or online. The out-of-hours doctor answers on 116117.

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 Milano Monza Brianza Lodi Chamber of Commerce, in December 2025 active agri-food firms in Lodi are 9.3% of the provincial total and dairy exports are the highest among the three provinces. ASST Lodi publishes its calls and competitions online.

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.

Since 2018 the University of Milan's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has been based in Lodi, with a university veterinary hospital and an experimental livestock centre. The ASST site also lists a nursing degree among its services.

The Comune divides the city into waste-collection zones (Albarola, Centro A-B-C, Fanfani-Pratello, Laghi-Oltreadda, Martinetta-Torretta-S. Grato, Olmo, Riolo-Fontana, S. Bernardo, S. Fereolo), the historic centre is protected by a ZTL with three gates, and the tourism site highlights historic buildings and Liberty villas.

In Lodi air quality is tracked by two ARPA Lombardia stations, in via Vittime della Violenza (urban background) and in viale Vignati (traffic). The Comune points to the Region's permanent and temporary measures and to an ARPA campaign on PM10 composition. Temperatures and exceedance days in the data.

The official tourism site for Lodi and its province (contact: Province of Lodi; contributors: Comune and Chamber of Commerce) lists piazza della Vittoria, the Romanesque cathedral with the crypt of San Bassiano, the Museo del Tesoro dell'Incoronata, Lodi maiolica and a cycling route along the Muzza canal.

Among its cultural venues the Comune lists the Teatro alle Vigne, the Biblioteca Laudense and the Historical Archive, and has a page on the urban gardens of via delle Caselle and via Selvagreca. A section of the site is dedicated to sport and leisure.