The province of Bergamo has come top
of il Sole 24 Ore's annual quality of life ranking for the first
time, coming in ahead of Trento and Bolzano in the 2024 index,
which the financial daily released on Monday.
It is quite a turnaround for the Lombard province, which came
52nd in 2020 when it was a COVID-19 hotspot.
It climbed four places with respect to last year to take the top
spot.
As in previous years, the top of the ranking is dominated by
northern provinces and southern ones hog the lower end.
Reggio Calabria was bottom of the 107 provinces while the
province of Naples was 106th.
The big metropolitan cities dropped places.
Milan fell by four to 12th, Florence slipped by 30 to 36th after
three years in the top 10, Turin fell by 22 to 58th and Roma
dropped 24 positions to 59th.
The index ranks the provinces on the basis of 90 indicators
split into six categories: wealth and consumer spending;
business and work; environment and services; demography, society
and health; justice and security; culture and free time.
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