Navarra · C. Foral De Navarra
Ujué
A perfect medieval defensive village perched high on a terraced hillside, so narrow to drive into that a king's heart is said to be preserved in its church altar.
What Ujué is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Twenty kilometres northeast of Olite, on the terraced hillside above harsh, arid La Ribera.
Worth the trip
- The thirteenth-century Romanesque church of Santa María, said to preserve the heart of King Carlos II of Navarra
- A romería (pilgrimage) on the first Sunday after St Mark's Day
Fiestas
- Romería on the first Sunday after St Mark's Day (25 April), when half of Tafalla walks through the night to Mass here
A little history
The romería commemorates the town's reconquest from the Moors in 1043.
Who it suits: Pilgrims
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
- 6.8°C 1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.9°C 1.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 93 days 35% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.2 h/day 15% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €18,667 29% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- no local data
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1
- Nearest international school
- 40 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 492 11 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 44 min
- Nearest health centre
- 11.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 96 days 11% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 58 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 0% 79% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 0% 83% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 169
- Born in Spain
- 94.1% 5.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.4% 1.5% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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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