Cáceres · Extremadura
Guadalupe
A small town dominated entirely by its great Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has drawn pilgrims for five centuries.
What Guadalupe is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
Perched up in the sierra west of Trujillo.
Worth the trip
- The monastery's Mudéjar cloister and Sacristía, containing eight Zurbarán paintings still in their original frames
- The Camarín, revealing a bejewelled black-icon image of the Virgin
- Narrow cobbled streets around the Pza. Mayor, overshadowed by the monastery's ramparts
A little history
Established in 1340 on the spot where a shepherd discovered an ancient image of the Virgin said to be carved by St Luke; Columbus named the Caribbean island of Guadalupe in its honour, and a local version became patron saint of Mexico.
Who it suits: Religious/art pilgrims
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
- 8.8°C 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 36°C 5.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 62 days 10% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 106 49 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,069 17% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 116 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 69 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 136 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 78% 1% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 78% 6% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,720
- Born in Spain
- 93% 4.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.9% 2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.58 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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