Araba/Álava · País Vasco
Laguardia
A gorgeous walled hilltop village in Rioja Alavesa, its old lanes riddled with subterranean wine cellars.
What Laguardia is like
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
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
- 7°C 0.8°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.5°C 0.7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 77 days 13% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €16,094 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 12.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3
- Nearest international school
- 15 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 62 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 94% 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: 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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