Italopedia is a one-person editorial operation in Piedmont, Italy. This is who I am, why I built this, and how the work actually gets done.
I grew up in Piedmont and have lived here my whole life — with a break in my twenties when I worked in the United States and discovered just how many Americans dream of making the move back the other direction. In 2019 I started seriously documenting the process, and in 2023 that documentation became Italopedia.
I built this site because the existing English-language information about moving to Italy was — to put it gently — bad. Most of it was written by people who had never actually walked into an Italian questura. Some of it was AI-generated nonsense. Almost none of it cited official sources. The errors were sometimes funny and sometimes expensive.
This site is my attempt to do it right. Every guide is researched against the Italian government's own publications, verified against my own walking-in-and-doing-it experience here in Piedmont, and reviewed by an Italian commercialista or lawyer when the subject demands it. When the law changes, I update the page. When I get it wrong, I fix it publicly.
Italopedia covers the eight categories that matter most to Americans moving to Italy: visas, residency, taxes, healthcare, property, citizenship, regions, and cost of living. The guides are long because the topics are genuinely complex — Italian bureaucracy does not reward summarisation. But they are also organised so you can find what you need quickly: hubs at the category level, deep articles where the detail lives, sidebars with the practical next steps.
"My promise to readers: I will not waste your time. Every fact you read here was tracked back to an Italian government source. Every procedure was performed, not paraphrased."
— Fabrizio BoggioA few things that may help you trust the work — or at least understand its perspective.
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