Girona · Cataluña
Pals
A fortified medieval village long neglected then painstakingly restored, its golden-brown buildings clustering around a stark Romanesque castle tower.
What Pals is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
7km north of Palafrugell, 7km from Begur.
Worth the trip
- Fourteenth-century streets and hilltop setting
- A Gothic church, Església de Sant Pere, and the Romanesque Torre de les Hores
A little history
Long neglected until it was painstakingly restored by a local doctor after the Civil War.
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
- 9.9°C 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C 0.3°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
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €17,555 21% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 27 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 19 min
- Nearest health centre
- 7.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 63 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 88% 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,552
- Born in Spain
- 71.6% 17.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 10.5% 6.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.96 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.
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