Benicàssim

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Benicàssim municipality
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Benicàssim coat of arms
Benicàssim (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Valencia
Province : Castellón
Comarca : Plana Alta
Coordinates 40 ° 3 ′  N , 0 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 3 ′  N , 0 ° 4 ′  E
Height : 15  msnm
Area : 36.1 km²
Residents : 18,192 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 503.93 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 12560
Municipality number  ( INE ): 12028
administration
Website : www.benicassim.org
Location of the municipality
Benicasim-Mapa de la Plana Alta.svg

Benicàssim ( Valencian ; Spanish : Benicasim ) is a city on the Costa del Azahar in the province of Castelló in the Valencian Community ( Comunitat Valenciana ), Spain . The city borders directly to the north on Castellón de la Plana . Due to its function as a tourist destination, the population increases to up to 40,000 during the season.

history

During the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, the German-Jewish doctor Günter Bodek, who fled to Spain from persecution by the Nazis, headed the hospital center as chief doctor on the part of the Republicans.

In late summer 1937, the editor of the New Theater magazine Herbert Kline , the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and the cameraman Jacques Lemare visited the hospital center to make a documentary about the American Medical Bureau during the Spanish Civil War. They also shot in the International Brigades Hospital (Villa Paz) in Saelices , near the Spanish capital.

Culture

Twin cities

Bad Salzdetfurth in Lower Saxony has been a twin town of Benicàssim since 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
  2. ↑ Dr. Günther Bodek . culture-neukoelln.de. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
  3. ^ The Volunteer Henri Cartier-Bresson Film Found in ALBA Archive by Juan Salas, March 6, 2010, accessed June 30, 2012
  4. ↑ Entry about the twin city Benicàssim on the homepage of the city of Bad Salzdetfurth.Retrieved on April 25, 2019, 11:09 pm