Cáceres · Extremadura
Alcántara
A town named for its bridge — the Arabic word for 'bridge' — home to a monumental Roman crossing of the Tajo and the seat of a Reconquest military order.
Why people fall for Alcántara
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
In a landscape of eroded rocks where the Tagus/Tajo is embedded, near the Portuguese border.
Worth the trip
- The Puente Romano, a six-arched bridge completed AD 105-106 under Trajan, held together without mortar and reputed the loftiest bridge ever built in the Roman Empire
- The Convento de San Benito, former headquarters of the Knights of Alcántara, with Plateresque decoration
A little history
Reputed to be the loftiest bridge ever built in the Roman Empire.
Who it suits: Roman-history travellers · Scenic walkers along the Tajo
Who Alcántara is for — and who it isn't
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities and read off where Alcántara lands.
Alcántara is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 39th and 73rd percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
The numbers
The decision data — each figure placed among all Spanish municipalities that report it ("top 10%" always means good, also where lower is better). Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 9.3°C top 27% of 8,131 towns 1.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.1°C bottom 13% of 8,131 towns 3.9°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 60 days top 42% of 8,088 towns 12% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 bottom 49% of 8,033 towns 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,799 bottom 42% of 8,059 towns 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.2% bottom 45% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 94 km bottom 15% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 #12 of 17 regions, −10 vs national 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 60 min bottom 16% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.9 km top 12% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days #14 of 17 regions, +32 days vs national 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 129 min bottom 10% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% top 2% of 8,132 towns 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 9% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,326
- Born in Spain
- 96.8% 8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 per 1,000
Numbers: SpainScore town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How does Alcántara fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Alcántara against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 63 min from Cáceres, if that's your anchor.
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