Badajoz · Extremadura
Jerez de los Caballeros
A quiet, spire-studded old walled town that many tourists pass through but few stay in, born of an 18th-century church-building spree.
What Jerez de los Caballeros is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
On the parched southern Extremadura landscape between Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier.
Worth the trip
- San Miguel's carved-brick tower on the central Pza. de España
- San Bartolomé's red-, blue- and ochre-glazed tiled tower on the hill above, with a striking tiled facade
- Santa Catalina's tower outside the walls
A little history
A passion for building spires gripped the eighteenth century, when three of the town's churches had new towers erected.
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
- 9.5°C 1.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.3°C 4.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 61 days 12% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 17 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,344 15% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7
- Nearest international school
- 59 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 48 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 72 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 80% 1% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 81% 2% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 9,104
- Born in Spain
- 95.5% 6.7% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.6% 3.3% 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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