Living in Polcenigo: the village at the springs of the Livenza, below the Cansiglio

The main village lies 45 m above sea level at the foot of the slope that climbs to the Cansiglio plateau; the municipality reaches 1,514 m and regional law classes all of it as mountain land. It is listed among the «Borghi più belli d'Italia». OMI divides the built-up area into the main village, the quarters of Coltura, Gorgazzo and Range, and the minor hamlets of the foothill and mountain zone, such as Mezzomonte at 482 m.

• Residents: 3,099, -2% against 2001; average age 49.7.
• Old houses and empty houses: in 2011, 75% of the housing stock (counted by building) went back to before 1971, and 43% of homes had no resident, holiday homes included (the figure explained).
• Shops: OpenStreetMap shows no supermarket in the municipality; measured straight from the town hall, the closest one is 3.1 km off. One pharmacy, one primary and one middle school.
• Visitors: 23,500 nights in 2025, 53% by foreign guests, long stays (7.6 nights on average) and 28% of nights between December and March.

For the neighbours, Aviano to Caneva, see the Pordenone foothills.

The Gorgazzo is a karst resurgence that brings the water of the Cansiglio and Cavallo uplands back to the surface. The Region's cave register records a 2019 dive to 222 m down and reports that a council ordinance closed the spring to cave divers after several fatal accidents. The Gorgazzo flows into the Livenza, whose springs lie by the Santissima sanctuary.

Water also brings risk: 8.9% of the municipality's buildings stand in medium flood-hazard areas, well above the regional median of 4.9%. Before buying near a stream, look up the hazard map for the specific plot (floods and landslides).

In all four OMI zones of Polcenigo, first-half 2026 values match those of 2021 exactly. Detached houses: €850/m²–€1,150/m² in the main village, €750/m²–€1,050/m² in the quarters; in the hamlets, standard homes €600/m²–€800/m². The OMI regional statistics do not publish the town's number of sales.

• Budget: €200,000 pays for 280 m² of housing at OMI values, 230 m² of detached house.
• ILIA 2026: the resolution of 22 December 2025 keeps 1.01% for second homes, lets and empty homes, and 0.70% on a single second home notified to the council (how it works).
• Letting: OMI rent €3.1/m² a month, a gross yield in theory of 5.2%. On a «concordato» (regulated-rent) lease the landlord may opt for a 10% flat tax rather than 21%, the town being on the 2010 damage lists (the list).
• First home: the municipality is classed as wholly mountainous, so the regional purchase grant is €15,500, or €20,000 under the age of thirty-six; as a rule, though, an applicant needs five years of residence here within the eight years before the application (conditions).

Tucked under the mountain, the town hall receives 6 h 14 min of direct light on 21 December: the terrain takes away 2 h 22 min and the first ray arrives at 08:46. At the eight points calculated 250 metres from the town hall sunshine ranges between 2 h 53 min and 8 h 10 min. The old village has 6 h 56 min, the Gorgazzo 7 h 14 min, Coltura 7 h 35 min, Mezzomonte 7 h 46 min (the sun tool).

• Climate: 75 frost nights, 35 days over 30 °C, 1,630 mm of rain.
• Earthquakes: zone 2; the highest intensity that the INGV historical catalogue gives for Polcenigo came from the 1936 Cansiglio earthquake (8 on the Mercalli scale) (seismic zones).
• Fibre: FTTH for 6.9% of households; it is among the 15 towns with the lowest coverage in the region.

• Hospital: the hospital in Pordenone, 22 min away without traffic, is the nearest A&E and also the nearest hub for heart attack and stroke; Sacile lost its first-aid point when 2025 ended (hospitals).
• Rail: Budoia Polcenigo station, 8 min away, showed 14 departures on the board for Friday 23 October 2026, all regional trains to Sacile or Maniago; for Udine you change.
• Roads: Sacile Est motorway junction 16 min, Pordenone 23 min, Venice airport 58 min, Udine 1 h 19 min.
• Slopes and sea: Piancavallo 33 min, Bibione's sands 1 h 8 min.