Cádiz · Andalucía
Ubrique
A natural mountain fortress and former Republican Civil War stronghold turned prosperous leather-goods town, secretly producing luxury bags for Loewe, Louis Vuitton and Gucci.
What Ubrique is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
20km southwest of Grazalema.
Worth the trip
- Unmarked leatherworking workshops around town producing bags and accessories for major luxury brands
- Shops along Avda. Dr Solis Pascual selling footwear and bags, often at bargain prices
A little history
A Republican stronghold in the Civil War; today prosperous thanks to the medieval guild craft of leatherworking.
Who it suits: Leather-goods shoppers
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
- 8°C 0.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.4°C 0.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 71 days 3% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 9 47 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,151 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 33.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 13
- Nearest international school
- 40 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 49 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 80 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 16,624
- Born in Spain
- 94% 5.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.5% 3.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.42 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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