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Calahorra
One of the most important cities in Roman Spain, known then as Calagurris, today known as the 'city of vegetables' for its fertile flood plains.
What Calahorra is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
On the Cidacos river.
On the table. Known as the 'city of vegetables' thanks to its fertile flood plains.
Worth the trip
- Remains of the original Roman walls
- A first-century Roman villa, La Clinica
- Evidence of the Roman circus
A little history
Known to the Romans as Calagurris, it was one of the most important cities in Roman Spain.
Who it suits: Roman-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
- 7.5°C 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 70 days about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.6 h/day 9% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,348 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 19.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 12
- Nearest international school
- 44 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 12 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 74 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 25,292
- Born in Spain
- 74.6% 14.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4% 0.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.36 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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