León · Castilla Y Leon
Astorga
A small pilgrim-trail town whose location at a junction of historic Camino routes has made it a major tourism draw since the Middle Ages — heartland of the mysterious, red-haired Maragato people.
What Astorga is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
Southwest of León on the Camino Francés and Via de la Plata.
On the table. Culinary traditions revered for their Maragato heritage.
Worth the trip
- An incongruously grand Catedral
- A modernista bishop's palace designed by Antoni Gaudí
A little history
Astorga is the heartland of La Maragatería, the traditional homeland of a red-haired tribe of mysterious origin, some historians saying they came from the Rif Mountains of Morocco; originally Roman-settled, it was sacked by the Moors in the eleventh century.
Who it suits: Camino pilgrims
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
- 4.8°C 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.3°C 2.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 75 days 9% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.5 h/day 4% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 22 35 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,155 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 10
- Nearest international school
- 48 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 61 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 46 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 10,300
- Born in Spain
- 90.6% 1.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.78 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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