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Vinaroz

Country:
Spain
State:
Comunidad Valenciana
City:
Vinaroz
Type of Location:
Multiple
About Location

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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By air

Nearest airports to Vinaroz are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

  Reus Airport (distanced approximately 95 km)
  Alfes Airport (distanced approximately 120 km)
  Albatarrech Lerida Airport (distanced approximately 120 km)
  Valencia Airport (distanced approximately 140 km)
  Caude-Teruel Airport (distanced approximately 140 km)

By road

Access to this location from Castellon and Tarragona take the AP-7 or N-340 .

Key places to visit
Ermita de San Gregorio, Church of St. Augustine, Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Playa del Fortin, Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy

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Places to Visit

Ermita de San Gregorio

The Chapel of Saint Gregory is located on the outskirts of the town of Vinaroz, the cross-roads of the cemetery or Dues and Viles, San Gregorio, about 700 meters from the population.After being delivered from a plague of locusts, farmers, grateful to San Gregorio, which they believed had helped them, decided on September 28th of 1779 the construction of the chapel. He was hired Gonel Pere, friar and architect for the traces and construction.

Church of St. Augustine

The Old Parish Church of St. Augustine Bishop Wenceslao Municipal Auditorium today Ayguals of Izco, is a religious building Baroque and Rococo style built between the XVII and XVIII, which is located in the medieval center of the municipality of Vinaroz, in the Province of Castellon. This church is all that remains of the Augustinian Convent, founded in 1594 and who were evicted in 1835, going to have different uses until it was demolished to build the municipal market. The church became municipal property housed the auditorium, and in the chapel of Santa Victoria a small local museum, now closed.

Church of Our Lady of the Assumption

The church of Our Lady of the Assumption located in the Plaza of the Church of Vinaroz is a fortified temple of the sixteenth century example of Gothic architecture and Baroque and Renaissance.The temple's construction began on March 31, 1586 and ended almost in its entirety, was consecrated on December 24, 1597.It is the work of the architects Marc and Joan Frigafont Valsánchez.In the seventeenth century, began the construction of the bell tower, a defensive and finished in 1660.

Playa del Fortin

The beach at the Fort  is a sandy beach in the municipality of Vinaroz in the province of Castellon.This beach is bordered on the north beach Fora Forat and south of the dam port and has a length of 715 m, with an amplitude of 60 m.It is situated in an urban environment, providing access to street and road. There promenade and parking defined. Has access for disabled. It is a beach area marked out with beacons for boats out.

Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy

The shrine of Our Lady of Mercy is located at the top of a hill or "puig", 6 km. of Vinaroz. The enclosure that houses the shrine is made today by a temple, the arcaded streets, the guest and the home of a hermit.The chapel, as we know it today has been raised in different chronological periods. After building the stables for the pilgrims, in the second half of the sixteenth century, was built the lodge, and the new temple to the actual cruise. In the first half of the seventeenth century the site was expanded and built its walls. Well into the eighteenth century, the church expanded, which has remained until today.
 

Right Time to Visit

June - September

Temperature

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