Metropolitan cities of Italy

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Metropolitan cities of Italy.

The metropolitan city (città metropolitana in Italian) is an administrative division of Italy, operative since 2014. The metropolitan city, as defined by law, includes a large core city and the smaller surrounding towns that are closely related to it with regard to economic activities and essential public services, as well as to cultural relations and to territorial features.

History

The original 1990 law individuated as metropolitan cities the comuni of Rome, Turin, Milan, Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Bari, Naples and their respective hinterlands, reserving the autonomous regions the right to individuate metropolitan areas in their territory.[1] In 2009, amendments added Reggio Calabria to the list.[2] The metropolitan areas individuated by the autonomous regions were: Trieste in Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Cagliari in Sardinia; Catania, Messina and Palermo in Sicily.

On 3 April 2014 the Italian Parliament approved a law that establishes 10 metropolitan cities in Italy,[3] excluding the autonomous regions. The new metropolitan cities have been operative since 1 January 2015.

Organisation

The metropolitan city is composed by the municipalities (comuni) that before had been members of the same province. Each metropolitan city is headed by a metropolitan mayor (sindaco metropolitano) assisted by a legislative body, the Metropolitan council (consiglio metropolitano), and by a non-legislative assembly, the metropolitan conference (conferenza metropolitana). Members of the Metropolitan council are elected and chosen by mayors and city councilors of each municipality in the metropolitan city, the metropolitan mayor is the mayor of the provincial capital. The metropolitan conference is composed by the mayors of the municipalities closest to the capital.[4]

The main functions devolved to the new metropolitan cities are:

  • local planning and zoning;
  • provision of local police services;
  • transport and city services regulation.

Metropolitan cities

Metropolitan city Area (km²) Population Established Mayor
Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale - Stemma.png Rome
Roma
5,352 4,336,915 April 2014 Francesco Paolo Tronca (I)
CoA Città di Milano.svg Milan
Milano
1,575 3,190,340 April 2014 Giuliano Pisapia (SEL)
CoA Città di Napoli.svg Naples
Napoli
1,171 3,128,702 April 2014 Luigi De Magistris (MA)
Turin coat of arms.svg Turin
Torino
6,829 2,293,340 April 2014 Piero Fassino (PD)
35px Palermo
Palermo
5,009 1,276,525 August 2015 Leoluca Orlando (I)
Bari-Stemma.png Bari
Bari
3,821 1,251,004 April 2014 Antonio Decaro (PD)
Flag of Catania.svg Catania
Catania
3.574 1,116,168 August 2015
FlorenceCoA.svg Florence
Firenze
3,514 1,007,435 April 2014 Dario Nardella (PD)
Bologna-Stemma.png Bologna
Bologna
3,702 1,003,027 April 2014 Virginio Merola (PD)
Stemma di Genova.svg Genoa
Genova
1,839 864,008 April 2014 Marco Doria (SEL)
Coat of Arms of the Republic of Venice.svg Venice
Venezia
2,462 858,455 April 2014 Luigi Brugnaro (I)
35px Messina
Messina
3,266 647 477 August 2015
Reggio Calabria Stemma.png Reggio Calabria
Reggio Calabria
3,183 558,959 January 2016 Giuseppe Falcomatà (PD)
Cagliari-Stemma sabaudo da L'archivio comunale di Cagliari.png Cagliari
Cagliari
1 248 431 302 February 2016 Massimo Zedda (PD)

See also

References

External links

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