Araba/Álava · País Vasco
Laguardia
A gorgeous walled hilltop village in Rioja Alavesa, its old lanes riddled with subterranean wine cellars.
Why people fall for Laguardia
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Stretched along the crest of a low ridge over the Rioja Alavesa vineyards, 15km northwest of Logroño, still ringed by medieval walls.
On the table. A wine village whose hilltop is honeycombed with cellars; nearby Bodegas Ysios and Bodegas Marqués de Riscal (near Elciego) are landmark Rioja wineries.
Worth the trip
- Medieval town walls and gates, with the Gothic-doorwayed church of Santa María de los Reyes
- Bodegas Ysios, a Calatrava-designed winery shaped like a row of wine barrels
- Bodegas Marqués de Riscal near Elciego, one of the oldest/largest Rioja wineries, with cellars storing every vintage since 1858
Who it suits: Wine-country day-trippers · Architecture fans
Who Laguardia 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 Laguardia lands.
Good for
- American retirees 94th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 6.8 US-born per 1,000
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
- 7°C bottom 49% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.5°C top 35% of 8,131 towns 0.7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 77 days bottom 30% of 8,088 towns 13% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 top 35% of 8,033 towns 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €16,094 top 25% of 8,059 towns 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 12.2% bottom 5% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3 top 19% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 15 km top 13% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 #9 of 17 regions, +3 vs national 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days #2 of 17 regions, −39 days vs national 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 62 min top 38% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% top 32% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 94% top 47% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,468
- Born in Spain
- 85.4% 3.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3% 0.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 6.81 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 Laguardia 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 Laguardia against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 19 min from Logroño, if that's your anchor.
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