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Ezcaray
A charming former textile town turned mountain holiday and ski resort, retaining its arcaded stone-and-wood streets — now also a foodie destination.
What Ezcaray is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
9 miles south of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, near the Valdezcaray ski area.
On the table. A reputation as a foodie destination with excellent local restaurants, including one of Spain's finest regional gastro-hotels.
Worth the trip
- Arcaded streets on stone and wood pillars
- A ruined sixteenth-century bridge and fortified medieval church
- A former 'royal factory' and dye shop from its textile heyday
A little history
A thriving textile centre in earlier centuries, with a woolen heritage developed since the Middle Ages.
Who it suits: Skiers · Foodies
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
- 5.1°C 2.7°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 26.7°C 3.5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 83 days 21% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,230 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.3%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3
- Nearest international school
- 53 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 12 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 47 min
- Nearest health centre
- 20.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 82 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,057
- Born in Spain
- 82.6% 6.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.8% about 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.
How does Ezcaray fit you?
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