Vinaròs

Vinaròs municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Valencia
Province :	Castellón
Comarca :	Baix Maestrat
Coordinates	40 ° 28 ′ N , 0 ° 28 ′ E Coordinates: 40 ° 28 ′ N , 0 ° 28 ′ E
Height :	0 msnm
Area :	95.5 km²
Residents :	28,682 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	300.34 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	12150, 12500
Municipality number ( INE ):	12138
administration
Website :	www.vinaros.org
Location of the municipality

Vinaròs is a city in eastern Spain, on the Costa del Azahar , on the northern border of the province of Castellón , about 160 kilometers north of Valencia . Vinaròs is one of the largest cities in the province and the capital of the Baix Maestrat administrative district. The place is near the mouth of the coastal river Cérvol into the Mediterranean Sea and has an important port.

History

During the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte on the Iberian Peninsula, the French general Musnier defeated the Spaniards near Vinaròs in November 1810.

Culture and sights

Carnaval de Vinaròs 2010

The seventeenth-century church of Arxiprestal de l'Assumpció in the city center and the picturesque Ermita de la Mare de Déu de la Misericòrdia i de Sant Sebastià , which is located on a 144 m high hill 5 km west of the village, are worth seeing .

The carnival in Vinaròs is an attraction in the whole area and is organized by the people through carnival clubs. In the Nit del Pijama , everyone in town wears pajamas or pajamas .

Others

During the Spanish Civil War between May and November 1938, the majority of the aircraft of the reconnaissance group 88 of the German Condor Legion , Heinkel He 45 and Dornier Do 17, lay at Vinaròs airfield .

The largest underground natural gas storage facility is to be built in an exploited oil deposit 20 km off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea. Within several weeks before, there had been 200 smaller earthquakes, with the strongest one with a magnitude of 4.2 on October 1, 2013, whereupon the Minister of Industry had the introduction of gas stopped.

Sons and daughters of the church

Ángel de Villalobos (1808–1880), journalist, politician, industrial promoter, Romanist and Hispanicist
Germán Lorente (1932–2019), director and screenwriter
Carles Santos Ventura (1940–2017), composer and artist
Pedro Barceló (* 1950), Spanish-German ancient historian

Web links

Commons : Vinaròs - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 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).
↑ http://orf.at/#/stories/2200692/ Series of earthquakes in Spain with an underground natural gas storage facility, ORF.at from October 1, 2013

[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] ttp://orf.at/#/stories/2200692/ Series of earthquakes in Spain with an underground natural gas storage facility, ORF.at from October 1, 2013