Cáceres · Extremadura
Alcántara
A town named for its bridge — the Arabic word for 'bridge' — home to a monumental Roman crossing of the Tajo and the seat of a Reconquest military order.
What Alcántara is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
In a landscape of eroded rocks where the Tagus/Tajo is embedded, near the Portuguese border.
Worth the trip
- The Puente Romano, a six-arched bridge completed AD 105-106 under Trajan, held together without mortar and reputed the loftiest bridge ever built in the Roman Empire
- The Convento de San Benito, former headquarters of the Knights of Alcántara, with Plateresque decoration
A little history
Reputed to be the loftiest bridge ever built in the Roman Empire.
Who it suits: Roman-history travellers · Scenic walkers along the Tajo
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
- 9.3°C 1.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.1°C 3.9°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 60 days 12% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,799 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 94 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 60 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 129 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,326
- Born in Spain
- 96.8% 8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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.
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