Guadalajara · Castilla-La Mancha
Sigüenza
A sleepy little town with a beautiful Catedral, seemingly untouched by contemporary life — though it was on the Civil War's Nationalist front line and paid a heavy toll.
What Sigüenza is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
120km northeast of Madrid.
Worth the trip
- A fascinating array of historic mansions and churches
- A pencil-thin Catedral bell tower, still pockmarked by bullets and shrapnel
A little history
Taken by Franco's troops in 1936, the town was on the Nationalist front line for most of the Civil War, and its people and buildings paid a heavy toll.
Who it suits: 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
- 5.9°C 1.9°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31°C 0.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 79 days 15% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 117 60 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,099 3% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 75 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 66 min
- Nearest health centre
- 34 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 100 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 74% 5% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 82% 2% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 4,898
- Born in Spain
- 72.7% 16.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4% 0.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.82 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 Sigüenza fit you?
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