Teruel · Aragon
Iglesuela del Cid, La
A picturesque Maestrazgo village whose name bears witness to the exploits of El Cid Campeador, though there's little else to commemorate the legendary hero.
What Iglesuela del Cid, La is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
11km southeast of Cantavieja, reached by a fine walk along a rough country road.
Worth the trip
- Ochre-red, dry-stone walls and ubiquitous coats of arms
- The compact Pza. de la Iglesia, enclosed by the old ayuntamiento and the Iglesia Parroquial de la Purificación
Fiestas
- El Cid romería, forty days after Easter (usually May)
A little history
The village's name bears witness to the exploits of El Cid Campeador, who came charging through the Maestrazgo in his fight against the infidel.
Who it suits: Off-beat road-trippers
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
- 8.2°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.7°C 1.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 25% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 10 46 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,892 18% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.5%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 30.4 per 1,000 31% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 0
- Nearest international school
- 59 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 89 min
- Nearest health centre
- 8.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 82 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 77% 2% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 77% 6% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 356
- Born in Spain
- 85.4% 3.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.5% 1.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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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