Burgos · Castilla Y Leon
Santo Domingo de Silos
A small village defined entirely by its Benedictine abbey — one of Spain's greatest Christian monuments, famed for its Gregorian-chant choir.
What Santo Domingo de Silos is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
18km southeast of Covarrubias.
Worth the trip
- The Abadía de Santo Domingo de Silos, with a double-storey 11th-century Romanesque cloister carved with eight graphic reliefs
- A Mudéjar wood-beamed ceiling blending Arab and Christian craftsmanship
- The monks' Gregorian chant choir, considered one of the top three in the world
A little history
A Visigoth place of worship stood on the site before a Benedictine monastery was founded in the 12th century; the present neoclassical complex was completed in 1792.
Who it suits: Monastery/architecture pilgrims · Choral-music lovers
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
- 4.7°C 3.1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28°C 2.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 85 days 24% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.3 h/day 13% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 95 39 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €18,898 30% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 34.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 0
- Nearest international school
- 46 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 47 min
- Nearest health centre
- 13.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 131 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 0% 79% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 0% 83% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 251
- Born in Spain
- 88.1% 0.7% 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 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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