Granada · Andalucía
Fuente Vaqueros
The birthplace of Federico García Lorca, Spain's national-treasure poet — his childhood home is now an intimate museum.
What Fuente Vaqueros is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
17km northwest of Granada.
Worth the trip
- Museo Casa Natal de Federico García Lorca, accessed only by guided tour, with family photographs and personal effects
A little history
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Spain's national-treasure poet, spent the first few years of his life here; he is believed to have been executed by Falangists on 17 August 1936 near the villages of Víznar and Alfacar.
Who it suits: Literary pilgrims
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
- 8.5°C 0.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 35.4°C 5.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.2 h/day 14% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 4 52 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €9,414 35% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 36.9%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 43.1 per 1,000 about the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3
- Nearest international school
- 12 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 30 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 9 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 11% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 4,744
- Born in Spain
- 90.2% 1.4% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.4% 1.5% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.21 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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