Cáceres · Extremadura
Guadalupe
A small town dominated entirely by its great Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has drawn pilgrims for five centuries.
Why people fall for Guadalupe
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
Perched up in the sierra west of Trujillo.
Worth the trip
- The monastery's Mudéjar cloister and Sacristía, containing eight Zurbarán paintings still in their original frames
- The Camarín, revealing a bejewelled black-icon image of the Virgin
- Narrow cobbled streets around the Pza. Mayor, overshadowed by the monastery's ramparts
A little history
Established in 1340 on the spot where a shepherd discovered an ancient image of the Virgin said to be carved by St Luke; Columbus named the Caribbean island of Guadalupe in its honour, and a local version became patron saint of Mexico.
Who it suits: Religious/art pilgrims
Who Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe lands.
Probably not for
- Heat-averse settlers 9th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: on/near the sea
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
- 8.8°C top 30% of 8,131 towns 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 36°C bottom 2% of 8,131 towns 5.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 62 days top 46% of 8,088 towns 10% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 106 bottom 17% of 8,033 towns 49 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,069 bottom 19% of 8,059 towns 17% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.9% top 32% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 116 km bottom 7% 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
- 69 min bottom 10% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 0.6 km top 2% 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
- 136 min bottom 7% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 78% bottom 26% of 8,132 towns 1% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 78% bottom 20% of 8,132 towns 6% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,720
- Born in Spain
- 93% 4.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.9% 2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.58 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 Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 89 min from Talavera de la Reina, if that's your anchor.
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