Valladolid · Castilla Y Leon
Medina del Campo
Below one of the region's great Moorish brick castles, this was once one of the most important market towns in Europe.
What Medina del Campo is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
23km south of Tordesillas, around 55km from Valladolid.
Worth the trip
- Castillo de la Mota, a brick-built Moorish castle that once housed Queen Isabel's army and later served as prison and girls' boarding school
- Museo de las Ferias, tracing the town's fifteenth/sixteenth-century trade fairs
- Pza. Mayor de la Hispanidad, still evocative of the days when the town's bankers determined European currency values
A little history
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries this was one of the most important market towns in Europe, with merchants coming from as far as Italy and Germany.
Who it suits: Castle/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
- 5.5°C 2.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.9°C 0.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days 9% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 60 3 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,984 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.8%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 41.4 per 1,000 6% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 14
- Nearest international school
- 76 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 49 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 20,238
- Born in Spain
- 89.3% 0.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.2% 0.7% 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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