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Santo Domingo de la Calzada
A small pilgrim-route town, isolated in a green plain, signalling pilgrims through the Baroque tower of its cathedral, dedicated to the town's founder.
Why people fall for Santo Domingo de la Calzada
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
20km west of Nájera, isolated in the middle of a green plain.
On the table. Plenty of inexpensive menús del día to raise pilgrims' strength and spirits.
Worth the trip
- The Catedral, Gothic apart from a Romanesque ambulatory and choir, with a Renaissance retable and 12th-century sculpted capitals
- A fourteenth-century Mudéjar cloister
- A former medieval pilgrims' hospital, now a fine parador
A little history
The small town owes its history and much of its livelihood to the Santiago pilgrim route, on which it is a stop.
Who it suits: Camino pilgrims
Who Santo Domingo de la Calzada 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 Santo Domingo de la Calzada lands.
Santo Domingo de la Calzada is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 72nd and 85th 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
- 5.1°C bottom 18% of 8,131 towns 2.7°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 26.7°C top 12% of 8,131 towns 3.5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 83 days bottom 22% of 8,088 towns 21% 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
- €13,106 bottom 31% of 8,059 towns 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 18.7% bottom 14% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7 top 9% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 42 km top 46% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 #5 of 17 regions, +14 vs national 12 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 23 min top 27% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 0.7 km top 2% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days #4 of 17 regions, −25 days vs national 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 58 min top 34% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 91% top 44% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 32% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 6,428
- Born in Spain
- 78.9% 9.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4% 0.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.78 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 Santo Domingo de la Calzada 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 Santo Domingo de la Calzada against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 36 min from Logroño, if that's your anchor.
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