Secrets of Castellón and villages around.

[Showbizzz]

I live in Castellón and i can recommend the best places around here. If anybody want to visit our province these are the sites that you need to visit.

Morella: A really nice and old village surrounded by a wall. I recommend to visit it at night with the silence and walk for the forest around the wall with lanterns, it's a really nice experience. To eat i recommend a restaurant near Morella in a village called "Forcall" and ask about "Sopa Forcallana" (The best sopa you can taste ;) )

http://es.geocities.com/jotarrea/img/morella.jpg


http://www.lemonpage.de/Morella/morark.JPG

I continue tomorrow with more places ;)

[Marina]

Morella looks beautiful!!!
Whats de "sopa forcallana" made of?
Please do send more places!!

[Valenciano]

Ah! lovely Castellon!

There are many relics left over from the reconquista period of Spain. The castle in morella is one of those relics. Did anyone see the film "El Cid"? Well, the castle in that film is morella castle. Sagunto in Valencia is another place where there are ruins left from that period.

I would like to recommend people to Benicasim, I used to go there every summer with my parents. Its a lovely place to spend you summer, with one of the best beaches in Spain there. Actually the name of this place is Arabic but I can't remember the meaning. Can someone find out?

We all know spanish has many arabic borrowings. :-*

[Brian]

Ah! lovely Castellon!

There are many relics left over from the reconquista period of Spain. The castle in morella is one of those relics. Did anyone see the film "El Cid"? Well, the castle in that film is morella castle. Sagunto in Valencia is another place where there are ruins left from that period.

I would like to recommend people to Benicasim, I used to go there every summer with my parents. Its a lovely place to spend you summer, with one of the best beaches in Spain there. Actually the name of this place is Arabic but I can't remember the meaning. Can someone find out?

We all know spanish has many arabic borrowings. :-*
We drive past Sagunto every time we go to the beach, and I agree that Benicasim is one of the best beaches. We discovered a couple of lovely medieval towns with castle ruins on our last trip, one of which was Albarracín (http://www.albarracin.org/). The other escapes me at the moment.

http://www.albarracin.org/imagenes/muralla.jpg

[Showbizzz]

More about morella.

Morella in winter:
http://www.morella.net/uploads/galerias/grandes/08052006_093131_morella__12.jpg

https://www.morella.net/uploads/grandes/14052006_155045_morella__100_0349.jpg


¿What you can find in morella?

Morella is the village of homemade embutidos, cheeses, sweets, honey flauvours and wool clothes.The products are not really cheap but not expensive because all of them are made with the same techniques and tools that old times.

Morella's church:
http://www.mesondelpastor.com/images/fmorella22.jpg



Prices of hotels and rural homes:

From 20 to 36 Euros Person/night. Normal is 20/26 Euros person/night.

Morella's point of view of an artist called berann:


http://www.berann.com/drawings/ZSP006.jpg

Next stop: Peñíscola.

[Valenciano]

There is a place somewhere in castellon, where there is the largest subterranean river in Europe. Anyone know?

[Hernández Fiendish]

The underground river is Las Grutas de San Jose. Went there in July. You go on a boat trip (and a little walk) into the cave, lots of stalagtites (or whatever they're called) but nothing amazing to be honest. It was a little pricey for €7 (if I remember rightly). They have a website www.riosubterraneo.com (http://www.riosubterraneo.com)

Also visited Morella this summer, scorchio day, so much so we didn't kill ourselves walking up to the castle, though saw a huge traca (bigger than anything I've seen in Valencia) outside the church for a wedding. the town is lovely and has a spectacular location but is fairly touristy now. I'd imagine a visit outside peak times would be advisable.

The ruins at Sagunto are sparse but interesting but have been spoiled somewhat by shortsighted "improvements", most controversially to the amphitheatre.
Has anyone ever been to the mostrosity that is Marina d'Or?

PS Wasn't the El Cid stuff done in Peniscola?