Ourense · Galicia
Celanova
Hardly more than a village, overshadowed by a vast and palatial Benedictine monastery where a king retired into monastic life.
What Celanova is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
35km southeast of Ribadavia, along the south bank of the Miño.
Worth the trip
- The Monasterio de San Salvador, with two superb cloisters (Renaissance and Baroque) and a cathedral-sized church
- The tiny, tenth-century Mozarabic chapel of San Miguel in the garden
A little history
Felipe V retired into monastic life here, having spent much of his reign securing the throne in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-13).
Who it suits: Monastery/architecture 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
- 7.4°C 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.8°C 2.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 107 days 56% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 1 55 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,647 13% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5
- Nearest international school
- 57 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 28 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 77 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 88% 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 87% 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,695
- Born in Spain
- 79.3% 9.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.6% 0.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 5.44 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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