Cáceres · Extremadura
Plasencia
A cathedral town that looks more impressive from afar than up close — its walls mostly hidden behind houses and its cathedral barely half-built, yet still worth a visit.
What Plasencia is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
In the shadow of the Sierra de Gredos, surrounded on three sides by the Río Jerte.
Worth the trip
- A twin Catedral — old (13th/14th c. Romanesque) and new (unfinished Gothic) — with a Renaissance choir stall called 'the most Rabelaisian in Christendom'
- The arcaded Pza. Mayor, host to a farmers' market every Tuesday since the twelfth century
- The Parque de la Isla on the Río Jerte, with 55 surviving arches of a 16th-century aqueduct
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
- 9.4°C 1.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.8°C 4.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days 6% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,085/m² 51% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €13,394 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 24
- Nearest international school
- 142 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 148 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 40,224
- Born in Spain
- 92.6% 3.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.1% 2.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.65 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 Plasencia fit you?
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