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Villaviciosa
A small old centre with pleasant squares and elegant alleys, home to two beautiful Romanesque churches.
What Villaviciosa is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
16 miles west of La Isla.
Worth the trip
- The Church of Santa María de la Oliva, 13th century, with a Gothic rose window and Romanesque portal
- The Church of San Juan in nearby hilltop Amandi, with a 13th-century portal and decorated apse
Who it suits: Romanesque-architecture 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
- 11.5°C 3.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23.1°C 7.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 122 days 78% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,987 3% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5
- Nearest international school
- 18 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 25 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 91 days 16% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 56 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 76% 3% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 80% 3% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 15,386
- Born in Spain
- 89% 0.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.9% 0.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.76 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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