Lugo · Galicia
Lugo
Galicia's oldest city, founded over 2000 years ago, ringed by the best-preserved Roman walls in the world — a UNESCO World Heritage site you can walk the full 2.1km loop of.
What Lugo is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
A beautifully preserved web of mostly pedestrianised streets and squares.
On the table. Back-to-back bars north of the cathedral make for a classic Spanish-city tapas and drinks scene, partying deep into the early hours on weekends.
Worth the trip
- World Heritage-listed 3rd-century Roman walls, rising an average 12m with 80 surviving towers
- Domus do Mitreo, subterranean remains of a Roman temple to Mithras
- Casa dos Mosaicos, wonderfully preserved Roman mosaics
- The serene cathedral, begun in 1129
A little history
Founded over 2000 years ago as Lucus Augusti to the Romans.
Who it suits: Roman-history travellers
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
- 7.5°C 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 26.1°C 4.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 117 days 70% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 3 54 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,360/m² 38% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,082 4% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 52
- Nearest international school
- 77 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 69 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 100,071
- Born in Spain
- 84.9% 3.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.8% 2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.96 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.
How does Lugo fit you?
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