Balears, Illes · Baleares
Valldemossa
An ancient hill town of rusticated houses and monastic buildings, famous as the retreat where George Sand and Frédéric Chopin spent a winter together.
What Valldemossa is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
10km southwest of Deià, in a lovely valley with a mountain backdrop.
Worth the trip
- The Real Cartuja de Valldemossa monastery, the island's most-visited building after Palma Catedral
- The cells where George Sand and Chopin lived for four months in 1838-39
A little history
Founded in the early 14th century when the asthmatic King Sancho built a royal palace in these hills for the easier air; in 1399 it passed to Carthusian monks who converted it into a monastery.
Who it suits: Literary/history pilgrims
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
- 13.4°C 5.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30°C 0.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days 22% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.8 h/day 8% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 69 12 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €22,096 52% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 14.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 11 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 471 10 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 24 min
- Nearest health centre
- 5.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 105 days 3% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 39 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,054
- Born in Spain
- 73% 15.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 10.8% 6.9% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 9.74 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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