Salamanca · Castilla Y Leon
Ciudad Rodrigo
An unspoiled frontier town encircled by impressive walls — an endearingly sleepy place that was a crucial Peninsular War border point.
What Ciudad Rodrigo is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
90km southwest of Salamanca, astride the road to Portugal.
Worth the trip
- A rather austere castle, now a parador
- A handsome Plaza Mayor and Renaissance-mansion-lined old-town streets
- A thirty-minute walk around the town's encircling walls
A little history
The town fell to the French after a fierce fight in 1810, but was retaken by the British in 1812 after a devastatingly rapid siege; cannonball dents are still visible above a doorway on the Catedral.
Who it suits: Peninsular War 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
- 6.6°C 1.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.1°C 0.9°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 64 days 7% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 20 37 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,815 12% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 9
- Nearest international school
- 152 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 57 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 89 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% 10% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 11,733
- Born in Spain
- 92.4% 3.6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.8% 0.1% 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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