Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Morella
A medieval fortress town rising from the plain, encircled by over a mile of 14th-century walls and crowned by a hilltop castle — one of the most attractive and friendliest towns in Castellón province.
What Morella is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
62km inland on the road from the coast to Zaragoza, atop a rocky spur 3,300 feet up.
Worth the trip
- Basílica de Santa María la Mayor, a fourteenth-century Gothic church with a raised coro reached by a marble spiral staircase
- El Castillo, the ruined medieval castle with sweeping views over the plains
- A Gothic aqueduct's remains
Fiestas
- An annual festival of classical music in the first two weeks of August
A little history
Recovered from the Moors in the thirteenth century by the steward of Jaime I, who was reluctant to hand it to the Crown, leading to a dispute with the king himself.
Who it suits: Medieval-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
- 8.2°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.7°C 1.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 25% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 10 46 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,487 7% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4
- Nearest international school
- 67 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 57 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 73 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 84% 5% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 86% 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,502
- Born in Spain
- 82.9% 5.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 7.9% 4.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.6 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 Morella fit you?
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