Toledo · Castilla-La Mancha
Oropesa
A proud castle dating from 1366, part of it converted into a parador.
What Oropesa is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
75 miles west of Toledo.
Worth the trip
- The 1366 castle, with 1402 additions now a parador
A little history
One of the counts of Oropesa, Francisco de Toledo, was Viceroy of Peru from 1569 to 1581.
Who it suits: Parador seekers
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°C 0.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.9°C 4.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days 21% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,390 15% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 87 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 33 min
- Nearest health centre
- 18.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 128 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,582
- Born in Spain
- 92.6% 3.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.5% 2.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.55 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 Oropesa fit you?
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