Cádiz · Andalucía
Castellar de la Frontera
A bizarre village enclosed within the walls of an isolated thirteenth-century Moorish castle, whole population relocated in 1971, turning the castle settlement into a restored ghost village.
What Castellar de la Frontera is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
27km north of Algeciras, the first White Town on the route from the coast.
Worth the trip
- The castle walls enclosing much of the restored old village, now with a couple of bars and places to stay
A little history
Its population was moved downriver in 1971 to the 'new' town of Nuevo Castellar, turning the castle settlement into a ghost village.
Who it suits: Off-beat White Towns 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
- 13.9°C 6.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.1°C 5.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 57 days 16% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,608 20% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4
- Nearest international school
- 14 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 30 min
- Nearest health centre
- 13 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 94 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 91% 12% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,996
- Born in Spain
- 92.5% 3.7% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.1% 0.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.34 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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