Valencian community | |
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State | Spain |
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Capital | Valencia |
Surface | 23,255 km² |
Inhabitants | 5.029.601 (2008) |
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Valencian community is a region of the Spain.
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Territories and tourist destinations
The Valencian Community is divided into the following territories:
- Province of Castellón - The province of Castellón is the northernmost of the Valencian Community.
- Valencia province
- Alicante province
- Costa Blanca
Province of Castellón
Costa del Azahar
The coast of the province of Castellón takes the name of Costa del Azahar. Assuming you enter from the Catalonia, the places that we will meet as we proceed towards the south are the following:
- Vinaroz (in Valencian Vinaròs) —
- Benicarló —
- Peñíscola (in Valencian Peníscola) —
- Alcocéber (in Valencian Alcossebre) —
- Torreblanca —
- Oropesa del Mar (in Valencian Orpesa) —
- Benicasim (in Valencian Benicàssim) —
Inland
- Castellón de la Plana (Castle) —
- Villafamés (in Valencian Vilafamés) —
- Montanejos —
- San Mateo (in Valencian Sant Mateu) —
- Morella —
- Forcall —
- Segorbe - Renowned for a race where herdsmen on horseback show off their skills in leading their herds of bulls through the city streets. The event occurs every year in the second week of September.
Costa Blanca
- Gandia —
- Dénia —
- Jávea (Xàbia in Valencian) -
- Calpe (Calp in Valencian) -
- Altea —
- Benidorm - Major seaside resort on the Costa Blanca
- Torreviejam —
Urban centers
- Alicante (Alacant) - Capital of the province of the same name.
- Almàssera (in Valencian Almácera)
- Buñol (in Valencian Bunyol) - Buñol is famous throughout Spain for the traditional "Tomatina" festival in which locals and tourists mix to give life to a real battle to the last tomato.
- Castellón de la Plana (Castle) - Capital of the province of Castellón.
- Cullera - On the banks of the Júcar River and overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
- Gandia - In a privileged location between the sea and the mountains.
- Montanejos - It has great natural attractions that favor an important development of internal tourism, so much so that it has earned the title of "Upper Mijares paradise".
- Peñiscola (in Valencian Peníscola) - It is part of Asociación Los pueblos más bonitos de España.
- Sagunto (in Valencian Sagunt) - With archaeological sites dating back to the Bronze Age.
- Valencia (València) - Capital of the province of the same name.
- Xàtiva (in Castilian Játiva) - At the foot of the Sierra de Aguyas, in the Albaida River Valley.
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