Valladolid · Castilla Y Leon
Tordesillas
A quiet riverside town boasting an important place in world history — here the 1494 treaty divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
What Tordesillas is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
30km southwest of Valladolid.
Worth the trip
- The Real Monasterio de Santa Clara, 'The Alhambra of Castile', originally a royal palace with delightful Mudéjar architecture
- A long medieval bridge across the Río Duero
- An arcaded Plaza Mayor of faded red-brick buildings
A little history
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divided the New World between Spain and Portugal along a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands; Juana la Loca was later imprisoned for half a century in a palace here.
Who it suits: 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
- 5.9°C 1.9°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 67 days about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.4 h/day about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 60 3 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,530 7% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6
- Nearest international school
- 68 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 20 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 35 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 8,801
- Born in Spain
- 88.9% 0.1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.6% 0.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.34 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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