Ávila · Castilla Y Leon
Ávila
A walled city on a high plain below the Sierra de Gredos, defined by two perfectly preserved kilometres of golden 11th-century walls and the cult of the mystic writer Santa Teresa, born here.
What Ávila is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Set on a high plain with the peaks of the Sierra de Gredos as a backdrop.
Worth the trip
- Two km of 11th-century walls with 88 towers, golden in the evening sun
- Convento de Santa Teresa, built over her birthplace, with a Baroque chapel and reliquary holding her rosary and a finger bone
- Monasterio de la Encarnación, where she lived from 1535 to 1574
- Convento de San José, the first monastery she founded, holding her coffin and a blood-stained handkerchief
A little history
Birthplace and shrine-site of the mystic writer Santa Teresa, a major focus of religious pilgrimage.
Who it suits: Pilgrims and religious-history travellers · Walled-city sightseers
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
- 4.8°C 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.7°C 1.5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 66 days 4% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 60 3 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,605/m² 27% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,261 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.3%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 37.8 per 1,000 14% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 43
- Nearest international school
- 4 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 85 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 59,480
- Born in Spain
- 85.4% 3.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2% 1.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.39 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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