Reggio Emilia

For 2025 Reggio Emilia applies a four-band municipal IRPEF surcharge, from 0.69% to 0.8%, with an exemption for taxable incomes up to 15,000 euros. UNIMORE students from out of town can apply for a rent grant. OMI rents and prices are in the data.

Public housing is managed by ACER Reggio Emilia, which also runs a Rental Agency (Agenzia per l'Affitto) and a student housing section. Market rents and prices in the OMI quotations.

A change of residence in Reggio Emilia is declared online on the ANPR portal or with the ministry form. Waste collection, door-to-door, is run by Iren Ambiente. The Panizzi library, the main public library, is in Palazzo San Giorgio, via Farini 3.

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 local mobility agency plans and coordinates urban and suburban buses; timetables and the network are on setaweb.it. Calatrava's Mediopadana high-speed station links the city to the high-speed network. In the centre the Ecoesagono set out in the urban mobility plan replaces the ZTL; a developed cycle network and pedestrian streets.

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.

A single AUSL-IRCCS covers the province, with one provincial hospital network: the Santa Maria Nuova in the city as hub (viale Risorgimento 80, with an emergency room, over 30 specialties, the CORE cancer centre and IRCCS research) and five spoke hospitals. City CAU at via Brigata Reggio 22; for the CAU and the out-of-hours doctor call the single number 0522 290001, active 24/7.

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.

In 2024 the province of Reggio Emilia has 3.5% unemployment and a 68.7% employment rate, down from 70.2% in 2023. Industry, the backbone of the local economy, cut hiring by more than a fifth; net job gains came from services, trade and construction.

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 1998 Reggio Emilia has been a seat of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, with three departments and the main building at viale Allegri 9; Communication Sciences, Agriculture and a second Engineering faculty started here then. The Loris Malaguzzi International Centre is a meeting point for those studying early-childhood education.

The statute recalls 7 January 1797, when the Sala Civica adopted the Tricolour that became the flag of the Cispadane Republic. Coat of arms with a red cross on white and the motto "Pace Belloque Fidelis", banner with the Resistance gold medal; patron San Prospero (24 November). A city of municipal preschools.

From 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027 Reggio Emilia restricts the most polluting vehicles in the urban area, with an ecological Sunday every week and emergency measures based on the Arpae bulletin. Until 31 December the city adds bans on biomass and outdoor burning, more checks and smart working.

Piazza Prampolini and Piazza San Prospero linked by porticoes, the Tricolour Hall and Museum, the Palazzo dei Musei and the other Civic Museum sites, the Ghiara Basilica with Guercino's Crucifixion, the Maramotti Collection. Outside the city the castles of Canossa, Rossena and Bianello and the Cervi Museum.

Fotografia Europea, founded in Reggio Emilia in 2006, brings exhibitions to the city every year; the I Teatri Foundation runs the Valli, Ariosto and Cavallerizza theatres and the autumn Festival Aperto. For outdoor sport there is the Crostolo cycle and footpath; in May ReggioNarra dedicates the city to children.