Girona · Cataluña
Ripoll
The cradle of Catalunya, where founding father Guifré el Pélos (Wilfred the Hairy) staked his claim to what became the Autonomous Community.
What Ripoll is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
A quiet mountain town, a good starting point for exploring the Pyrenees.
Worth the trip
- Monestir de Santa Maria, its twelfth-century west portal facade considered one of Spain's great works of Romanesque art, nicknamed the 'Stone Bible'
- An international music festival in July and August at the fourteenth-century church of Sant Pere
- The Via Verde 'Ruta del Ferro i del Carbó' cycling/trekking route
Fiestas
- International music festival, July and August
A little history
Known as the cradle of Catalunya, as it was here that founding father Guifré el Pélos (Wilfred the Hairy) staked his claim to what became the Autonomous Community of Catalunya.
Who it suits: Pyrenees hikers · Romanesque-art 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
- 5.4°C 2.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.6°C 0.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 79 days 14% more 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
- €15,621 8% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7
- Nearest international school
- 56 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 12 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 74 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 10,812
- Born in Spain
- 80.4% 8.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.1% 2.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.65 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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