Medina de las Torres

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Extremadura requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Ley 11/2018, art. 70. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2011. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 6 wells and boreholes in Medina de las Torres. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 89–103 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 88% practically impermeable; 7.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 180 ha, in 2018.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 471 mm a year (1971–2000), about 412 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.6 °C, about 36.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 6 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Atalaya · Valencia del Ventoso · Calzadilla de los Barros · Puebla de Sancho Pérez · Alconera · Zafra · Fuente de Cantos · Usagre