Cantabria · Cantabria
San Vicente de la Barquera
A dramatic approach marooned on both sides by the sea, reached across a long causeway — a thriving fishing port with famed seafood restaurants, though functional rather than pretty.
What San Vicente de la Barquera is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
12km west of Comillas.
On the table. A string of locally famed seafood restaurants.
Worth the trip
- The Puente de la Maza causeway across the Río Escudo
- An impressive Renaissance ducal palace and the Romanesque-Gothic church Santa María de los Ángeles atop the hilltop old town
Who it suits: Seafood diners
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
- 10.5°C 2.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.4°C 7.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 122 days 78% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,671 6% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 29 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 30 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 137 days 27% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 46 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 3,989
- Born in Spain
- 90% 1.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.25 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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