Living in Cervignano del Friuli: the Bassa's service town, with the station for Grado and Aquileia

Cervignano is one of the region's 22 municipalities with more than 10,000 residents, and its services show it: 11 supermarkets, 4 pharmacies, an out-of-hours doctor, and schools from nursery to upper secondary, among them a science-focused liceo and an industrial technical institute.

Foreign nationals make up 14.5% of residents, the highest share in the Bassa. The town has grown since 2001, while the median municipality around it stands at -5%. Owner-occupiers were 75% of households at the 2011 census, the lowest share among the area's twenty-three municipalities.

It also hosts a 46-hectare freight interport, an inland terminal of the port of Trieste according to the Region.

Cervignano-Aquileia-Grado is also the station for Grado (27 min by car) and Aquileia (13 min). The 23 October 2026 board, a Friday, counted 74 departures: 12 towards Udine, some running on to Gemona, Carnia or Tarvisio; most of the rest to Trieste and Venice, plus a few through trains to Milan, Turin and Rome. One day's snapshot: the timetable changes in December 2026.

• To Austria: on a trial basis, the Mi.Co.Tra. calls here at weekends and on public holidays, running through to Villach; on weekdays you board it in Udine, a 31 min drive.
• By car, traffic-free: Palmanova motorway junction 11 min, Trieste airport 21 min, Udine 35 min, Trieste 51 min, Ljubljana 1 h 36 min, Klagenfurt 2 h 4 min (every municipality).

OMI, the tax agency's property observatory, quotes homes in two zones, centre and outskirts, and detached houses only on the outskirts, at €875/m². In the Bassa, only Codroipo is valued higher.

Between 2021 and 2026, comparing the same two zones, the centre moved -0.5% and the outskirts +5.9%: a median of 2.7%. Over the last year: 0.0%. Sales are brisk: 197 homes sold in 2025, 2.7% of the stock, compared with 2.2% for the median municipality with published figures. OMI's rent of €3.7/m² a month would give a gross yield of 4.6% on paper, ignoring tax, maintenance and empty periods.

• ILIA, the regional property tax: a second home kept for your own use pays 0.76% here; across the region rates run from 0.76% to 1.06% (Aquileia 1.06%). The first second home you register online with the Region pays 0.70% (how ILIA works).
• Land register: ownership passes only when the sale is recorded in the libro fondiario, and one of the Region's 6 land registry offices is in town, at Via Roma 6. A folio extract costs €10 in fees and €16 in stamp duty (how it works).

• 24-hour A&E: at Palmanova hospital, 17 min without traffic; next comes Monfalcone, 26 min.
• Heart attack, stroke, major trauma: the nearest hub is Udine, 34 min; the 112 control room decides where patients are taken (the hospital network).
• Slovenia: Šempeter pri Gorici general hospital is 29 min away.

• Water: ISPRA puts 7.1% of buildings in its P2 band, below the Bassa median (12.9%) but above the regional one (4.9%); in the rare-event scenario (P1), which marks how far water can reach, the share rises to 26.1%. Frequent-flood areas (P3) cover 9% of the land. In November 2025 it was one of 24 storm-hit municipalities where the Region funded fast-track aid for residents. For a particular house, check the map and how high the ground floor sits (floods and landslides).
• Heat: 50 days a year hit 30 °C or more (Udine 39), close to the regional maximum of 51; nights staying above 20 °C number 7.
• Winter: 57 frosty nights; at the winter solstice, 8 h 36 min of direct sunshine, which the flat horizon barely shortens.
• Broadband: FTTH, fibre into the home, covers 43.9% of households; regional median 77.9% (fibre town by town).
• Seismic risk: zone 3, the lowest hazard class used in the region.