Girona · Cataluña
Santa Pau
A beautifully preserved medieval village at the heart of the volcanic region, known for its beloved fesols (haricot beans).
What Santa Pau is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
9km southwest of Olot, right in the middle of La Garrotxa's volcanic region.
On the table. Known for its fesols (haricot beans), celebrated with its own bean festival.
Worth the trip
- Stone houses, narrow lanes and ancient archways
- The thirteenth-century Pl. Mayor, once the Firal dels Bous (Cattle Market)
Fiestas
- Fira de Sant Antonic / Fira de Fesol (bean festival), mid- or late January
Who it suits: Volcanic-region base
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
- €18,407 27% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3
- Nearest international school
- 29 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 11 min
- Nearest health centre
- 7.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 62 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 83% 4% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 85% 2% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,578
- Born in Spain
- 93.1% 4.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.27 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 Santa Pau fit you?
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