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Santo Domingo de la Calzada
A small pilgrim-route town, isolated in a green plain, signalling pilgrims through the Baroque tower of its cathedral, dedicated to the town's founder.
What Santo Domingo de la Calzada is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
20km west of Nájera, isolated in the middle of a green plain.
On the table. Plenty of inexpensive menús del día to raise pilgrims' strength and spirits.
Worth the trip
- The Catedral, Gothic apart from a Romanesque ambulatory and choir, with a Renaissance retable and 12th-century sculpted capitals
- A fourteenth-century Mudéjar cloister
- A former medieval pilgrims' hospital, now a fine parador
A little history
The small town owes its history and much of its livelihood to the Santiago pilgrim route, on which it is a stop.
Who it suits: Camino 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
- 5.1°C 2.7°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 26.7°C 3.5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 83 days 21% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,106 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 18.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7
- Nearest international school
- 42 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 12 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 23 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 58 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 91% 12% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 6,428
- Born in Spain
- 78.9% 9.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4% 0.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.78 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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