Women strolling in a commercial street in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Spain is a favorite destination for tourists. In 2022 alone, 67.44 million foreign visitors visited our country. However, due to the geographical variety of our country, we can find very different people from one end of the national territory to the other.
There are also cities and regions that have a reputation for being more or less pleasant or more or less hospitable. In this sense, the Preply platform has developed a survey asking the inhabitants of several Spanish cities to try to elaborate a Ranking of the more or less educated cities of the country.
The methodology followed was to interview more than 1,500 residents of 19 Spanish areas to ask them how often they encounter rude behaviour. Among these behaviors were: always being on the phone in public, not letting other cars pass in traffic, being loud in public, speaking on a loudspeaker system in public, or not welcoming strangers.
After the results, they ordered the most and least educated cities in Spain on a scale of 1 to 10. Among the rudest are Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Granada, Alicante-Elche, San Sebastián or Bilbao. Among the best educated, Vigo, A Coruña, Valencia, Murcia-Orihuela and Oviedo-Gijón-Avilés.
However, the conclusions they drew were not so drastic. “Although the findings show that some cities are ruder than others, Spaniards are quite polite people in public,” the authors point out.
These are the 10 rudest cities, according to Preply:
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Holy Cross of Tenerife
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Granada
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Alicante-Elche
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San Sebastian
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Bilbao
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Palma de Mallorca
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Barcelona
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Rum raisin
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Valladolid
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Madrid
And these, the 10 most educated:
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Vigo
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A Coruña-Olerios-Arteixo
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Valencia
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Murcia-Orihuela
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Oviedo-Gijón-Avilés
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The palm trees of Gran Canaria
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Zaragoza
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Seville
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Cadiz
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Madrid
Among the rude behaviors that its citizens considered most common were: always being on the phone in public, in San Sebastián; be rude to service personnel, in Granada; speaking on the loudspeaker in public, in Bilbao, or not respecting personal space in Alicante-Elche.
This study also looked at whether in these resorts they felt residents were more or less educated than tourists, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Cádiz, locals said, while in Palma and Valladolid visitors assured.
Also, as a gesture of good manners, in the preparatory study The percentage of tips left in each city was analysed, the most generous being Valladolid, where the tip reaches 10.18% of the amount.
