The Season Away
A month,
or a full season.
Rent a flat, live like a local, and come home.
Here’s what it costs, whether you’re allowed, and where you’d go.
No visa. No permission. Ninety days in Italy is already yours.
Most people never know you can rent a place for a season — and live it for about what your summer costs anyway.
No visa. No permesso. Ninety days is already yours.
Show me the math
A comfortable summer on Lake Como, three months, everything in: about fifteen thousand four hundred dollars. Right around what a couple spends on a good long vacation — except this is a whole season. Here’s the arithmetic, line by line.
See the numbers →Can I really just do this?
No visa. No application. No permission from anyone. Ninety days in Italy is already yours — you just have to know how the ninety days work.
How it works →Where would I go?
Thirty-eight cities, scored the same way, with real rents and no postcard nonsense. Answer a few questions and we’ll find the ones that fit you.
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