Zamora · Castilla Y Leon
Toro
An ancient, eroded, red-walled town spread along the top of a huge flat boulder, its Battle of Toro (1476) laying the basis for the unification of Spain.
What Toro is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
30km east of Zamora.
On the table. Increasingly well known for its gutsy red wines; a Plaza Mayor lined with tapas bars and restaurants.
Worth the trip
- The Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor, its west portal (c.1240) one of the most beautiful examples of Romanesque art in the region
- The Virgin of the Fly, a notable fifteenth-century painting in the sacristy
A little history
The Battle of Toro in 1476 effectively ended Portugal's interest in Spanish affairs and laid the basis for the unification of Spain, when the Reyes Católicos defeated their rivals.
Who it suits: Wine tourists · 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
- 6.3°C 1.4°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.8°C 0.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days 5% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7 h/day 3% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 60 3 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,082 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 8
- Nearest international school
- 96 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 50 min
- Nearest health centre
- 6.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 69 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 8,349
- Born in Spain
- 89.1% 0.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.4% 0.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.72 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 Toro fit you?
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