Teruel · Aragon
Albarracín
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? Rose-hued, half-timbered, geranium-balconied houses overhang twisting streets on a rocky promontory — once the seat of an independent Berber dynasty.
What Albarracín is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
Built on a high rocky promontory above a loop of the Río Guadalaviar.
Worth the trip
- Age-old fortifications climbing the surrounding hills
- The Catedral and Museo Diocesano, with an eye-catching gilded altarpiece
- Hundreds of big boulders scattered around the rocky countryside, drawing climbers from across Europe
A little history
The Banu Razin clan of Berbers ruled here as an independent dynasty from 1013 to 1104, and the tiny statelet was not subsumed into Aragón until 1284/1333.
Who it suits: Climbers/boulderers · Medieval-history travellers
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 5.4°C 2.4°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.6°C 1.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days 21% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.3 h/day about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,203 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 123 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 44 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 144 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 74% 5% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 82% 1% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,001
- Born in Spain
- 82.7% 6.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Albarracín fit you?
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