Villares de la Reina

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2026. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 19 wells and boreholes in Villares de la Reina. Half of the 18 with a depth found water at 20–107 m.

Ground: 92% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.6% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 313 mm a year (1971–2000), about 299 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.6 °C, about 32.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 69 a year, about 47 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Monterrubio de Armuña · San Cristóbal de la Cuesta · Cabrerizos · Villamayor · Castellanos de Moriscos · Castellanos de Villiquera · Moriscos · Salamanca