Zaragoza · Aragon
Tarazona
A town where Jews, Muslims, and Christians have long coexisted, once host to the court of the Catholic Monarchs, its absorbing sights in an old upper town of Judería and Morería quarters.
What Tarazona is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
9 miles north of Monasterio de Veruela, on the banks of the Río Queiles.
Worth the trip
- An old quarter retained around the former royal residence, now an episcopal palace
- The Judería and Morería (Jewish and Moorish quarters), with medieval houses lining the callejas and pasadizos
Fiestas
- Fêtes del Pilar, October 12, with floral and fruit offerings
A little history
Hosted the court of the Catholic Monarchs for a time.
Who it suits: Multicultural-heritage 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
- 4.8°C 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.8°C 1.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 80 days 16% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.3 h/day about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,887 4% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 18.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6
- Nearest international school
- 62 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 26 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 84 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 84% 5% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 87% 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 10,872
- Born in Spain
- 82.2% 6.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.7% 1.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.18 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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