The area
Collado Royo and the Gúdar-Javalambre area
What there is around the village, how far away each place is and what the climate is like at a thousand metres.
What there is around the village, how far away each place is and what the climate is like at a thousand metres.
Collado Royo is an entire village for sale for €1,600,000 in San Agustín (Teruel, Aragón, Spain), within the Gúdar-Javalambre area (comarca). It lies between 959 and 1,000 m above sea level, 4-5 km from exit 71 of the A-23 motorway and 1h15 (95 km) from the city of Valencia. This page brings together what buyers ask about the area.
Page updated on . Distances in kilometres are measured by road; times in minutes are approximate.
Collado Royo is secluded, but basic services are about 17 km away, around Sarrión and the A-23. The village belongs to the municipality of San Agustín: 132 inhabitants (1 January 2025) spread across more than thirty hamlets and farmhouses over 56.57 km². The centre of San Agustín, 16.7 km away by road, has a doctor's surgery (clinic) and a pharmacy with limited opening hours, a butcher's and grocery shop, and a bar.
Roberto and Pilar, the owners of Collado Royo, live in another village about ten minutes away.
| Health centre (Sarrión) | 16.8 km |
| Supermarket (Sarrión) | 16.7 km |
| Pharmacy (Albentosa or Sarrión) | 16-17 km |
| Petrol (gas) stations on the A-23 | 16-17 km |
| Olba state primary school | 10.7 km · ~27 min |
| 24-hour emergency care and secondary school (Mora de Rubielos) | 26 km |
| Obispo Polanco Hospital (Teruel) | ~55 km |
| Valencia Airport | ~108 km |
| The city of Valencia | 1h15 · 95 km |
| Castellón de la Plana | ~105 km |
| Madrid | ~360 km |
There is no weather station at Collado Royo. The nearest official reference is the station run by AEMET, Spain's state meteorological agency, in Teruel, at 918 m: almost the same altitude as the village. Its averages from 1991 to 2020:
| January: average temperature | 4.0 °C |
| January: average low | −2.2 °C |
| July: average temperature | 22.7 °C |
| July: average high | 31.9 °C |
| Rainfall per year | 360 mm |
| Days of snow per year | ~10 |
| Hours of sunshine per year | 2,685 |
In practice, at Collado Royo you need firewood in winter, and some years it snows. The houses have wood-burning fireplaces and their own power from solar panels and batteries.
In 2017 the Gúdar-Javalambre area obtained Starlight Reserve and Tourist Destination certification, the first in Aragón, and renewed it in 2021. The Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory and Galáctica, the astronomy outreach centre that opened in 2023 in Arcos de las Salinas, are 43.7 km from Collado Royo, about 50 minutes away.
Sarrión is 16.9 km from Collado Royo, about 28 minutes away. Every year, over the early-December long weekend, it holds FITRUF, its international truffle fair.
The nearest stretch of the Mijares river is about 10 minutes away by car. Within the municipality of San Agustín is the Mirador de las Hoces del Mijares, a viewpoint with a cantilevered walkway 8.5 m long. A road leads from the village down to the river. The Estrechos del Mijares, the river's limestone gorges, are a protected Natura 2000 site.
25 km away, just inside the province of Castellón. Its Fuente de los Baños spring flows at about 25 °C all year round, and it was the first thermal bathing spot in Spain to be awarded a Blue Flag.
Aramón Javalambre (13 runs, from 1,650 to 2,000 m) and Aramón Valdelinares (14 runs, from 1,700 to 2,000 m), both less than an hour's drive from Collado Royo.
The longest greenway (rail trail) in Spain: about 160 km between Teruel and Sagunto along the route of an old mining railway. Its Albentosa viaduct is about 10 km from the village.
Rubielos de Mora, one of the Most Beautiful Villages in Spain (Los Pueblos Más Bonitos de España), is 20.8 km away. Mora de Rubielos, the capital of the comarca, with its castle and collegiate church, is 26 km away. Olba, in the Mijares valley, is 10.7 km away.
Teruel, the provincial capital, and Dinópolis, the palaeontology park, are about 55 km away along the A-23. A little further on is Albarracín.
Collado Royo is surrounded by pine and holm oak woodland. The Gúdar and Javalambre mountains around it are home to Iberian ibex, wild boar, roe deer, griffon vultures and golden eagles.
10.7 km away, about 27 minutes by car: a state primary school with no textbooks, an organic vegetable garden and a lot of time outdoors, which has drawn families from all over Spain. The secondary school is in Mora de Rubielos.
Some winters, yes. Collado Royo lies between 959 and 1,000 m above sea level. There is no weather station in the village; the AEMET station in Teruel, at 918 m, records about 10 days of snow a year and an average January low of −2.2 °C (1991-2020 averages).
The nearest health centre, supermarket, pharmacy and petrol (gas) stations are around Sarrión and the A-23, about 16-17 km away. 24-hour emergency care and the secondary school are in Mora de Rubielos, 26 km away, and the hospital is in Teruel.
Valencia Airport, about 108 km by road. Castellón Airport is about 136 km away. Teruel Airport has no commercial flights.
The nearest coast is at Sagunto (province of Valencia), about 77 km by road. The city of Valencia is 95 km away, 1h15 by car.
It means that in 2017 the Starlight Foundation certified the quality of the night sky over the comarca, which was the first area in Aragón to achieve it. The certification was renewed in 2021. What is certified is the comarca, and Collado Royo lies within it.
FITRUF, the international truffle fair, is held in Sarrión every year over the long weekend of the early-December public holidays. Sarrión is 16.9 km from Collado Royo, about 28 minutes by car.
Collado Royo is sold as a whole for €1,600,000: four stone and timber houses sleeping 20-22, 5 hectares of land, its own solar power and two ruins that can be rebuilt. The best way to get to know the area is to spend a night in the village.
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