Teruel · Aragon
Valderrobres
One of the Maestrazgo's most attractive towns, astride the trout-teeming Río Matarraña, dominated by a castle once owned by the archbishops of Zaragoza.
What Valderrobres is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
50km from Calanda, near the Catalunya border, astride the Río Matarraña.
On the table. The Río Matarraña's crystal waters teem with trout.
Worth the trip
- The Castillo, once owned by the archbishops of Zaragoza, restored in the 1980s and hosting cultural events
- Santa María La Mayor, a fourteenth-century church with a fine rose window, one of the most impressive examples of Levantine Gothic in the region
Who it suits: Fly-fishers · Maestrazgo road-trippers
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
- 11.7°C 3.9°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33°C 2.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 49 days 29% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.6 h/day 4% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 24 32 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,203 9% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 88 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 65 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 115 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 60% 19% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 85% 2% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,537
- Born in Spain
- 74.8% 14% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 11% 7.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.79 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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