Expat Living Italy

Harmonized data on all ~7,900 Italian comuni, 107 provinces and 20 regions, plus European NUTS regions, joined from nine institutional sources into one schema.

CommunityOnlineNo sign-inGlobalFreeCan modify data

What it can do

  • Get Comune: One Italian comune's population, foreign residents by citizenship, property purchase/rent price, price-to-rent, verified tax-regime eligibility, its province's rollup, `layers` (climate, a
  • Search Comuni: Look up Italian comuni by name (case- and accent-insensitive, partial names work) and get each one's 6-digit ISTAT code, province and region — the code get_comune needs. Returns identif
  • List Datasets: The catalog: each dataset's source institution, vintage (the period it describes), geographic grain, license, the expatliving.it page that presents it, and whether it is servable (false

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Harmonized data on all ~7,900 Italian comuni, 107 provinces and 20 regions, plus European NUTS regions, joined from nine institutional sources into one schema. Ask for a town and get population, foreign residents by nationality, property prices and rents, climate, air quality, well-being indicators and tax-regime eligibility in a single call.

The underlying data is public. Using it is not. ISTAT publishes SDMX, the Agenzia delle Entrate publishes OMI by half-year zone, Eurostat and OECD publish at NUTS grain that does not map onto Italian municipalities. This server does the crosswalking, the joining and the grain labeling once, so an agent does not have to do it wrong every time.

Three rules it holds to:

Every number carries its source, vintage and geographic grain. A 2019 median age is never presented as current, and a province figure is never passed off as a town's. Missing data is absent. Never imputed, never zero-filled. No composite "best place in Italy" score. The caller sets the weights.

Tools: search_comuni, get_comune, list_datasets. Also available as REST at /api/v1 with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec at /openapi.json.

Sources: ISTAT, Agenzia delle Entrate (OMI), Eurostat, OECD, Copernicus Climate Data Store (ERA5-Land), MEF, EEA, Ministero della Salute, Ministero dell'Interno.

How to connect

How to connect Expat Living Italy to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://expatlivingitaly.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect Expat Living Italy to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://expatlivingitaly.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect Expat Living Italy to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://expatlivingitaly.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (3)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

get_comuneOne Italian comune's population, foreign residents by citizenship, property purchase/rent price, price-to-rent, verified tax-regime eligibility, its province's rollup, `layers` (climate, air quality, crime, healthcare quality, age, population change and every other Italy-map layer) and `provinceWellbeing` (ISTAT BES indicators, polarity-aware percentiles) — looked up by 6-digit ISTAT code. Each layer's `grain` and `measuredFor` say whose number it is: a province or region value is not a measurement of this comune — say so when you quote it. Every field is wrapped in a provenance envelope (source, vintage, extractedOn, license); repeat the vintage when you state the number, and if a value is null, say why rather than treating it as zero.
search_comuniLook up Italian comuni by name (case- and accent-insensitive, partial names work) and get each one's 6-digit ISTAT code, province and region — the code get_comune needs. Returns identifiers only, no figures. Several comuni share a name; check the province before choosing.
list_datasetsThe catalog: each dataset's source institution, vintage (the period it describes), geographic grain, license, the expatliving.it page that presents it, and whether it is servable (false = still an unverified draft; never quote its values). Use it to say what data exists and where a reader can see it.