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Peñiscola, to the
north of the Valencian Community, is in a privileged point of the Spanish
Mediterranean. The 79 km2 of extension of his municipality, 17 of
which pass parallel to the littoral, distribute equitably between the
forest surfaces and the hot Mediterranean cultures, between which there are not absent the orange
tree, the olive tree and the almond-tree.
The ancient, crowned city for the one that was a mansion of the Pope Benedicto
XIII, a castle - fortress of s. The XIVth, it occupies an impressive
crag that raises 64 meters on the blue of the sea; joined the continent for a
cord of sand that time behind was swept by the waves during the temporary ones,
transforming to the city in
 an
ephemeral island. In contrast with the old
town, they find the new
streets and avenues of the tourist zone. Hot waters in summer and autumn,
distribute between the extensive beaches of thin sand to the north of the
citadel and coves flanked by abrupt cliffs in the south. Peñíscola is placed
to the north of Castellón's province, to
approximately 70 Kms. of the capital, in the
region of the Baix Maestrat. It is possible to come even there for the highway
N-340, for the highway A-7 (exit 43) and from the railway station
Benicarló-Peñíscola, in the same center of the
 Mediterranean
corridor, with stop of the principal trains of
crossed length. We can come to Peñíscola
from any point of the Spanish geography. We go out of Barcelona for the
highway A-7. We pass for lands of Tarragona until come to the
exit 43 of Peñíscola,
Benicarló, Vinarós. To this height we
go out of the highway and take the highway N-340 up to the crossing with
the CV-141. From here, only we must continue the highway to find
the CV-140, which leads directly
Peñíscola. From Madrid we divide for the highway M-30
up to the highway N-III. We continue our
distance to reach the railcar A-31 and to come together with the A-3
and, later, with the A-7. When come to the exit 43 of this highway
we turn aside to the N-340. From there we will cross the CV-141
and the CV-140 to reach our destiny.
The distance from Valencia to Peñíscola is much
more short. We leave the capital to continue up to the railcar A-31. We
cross the highway A-3 to come to the A-7. Once in the exit 43
of this highway we continue the same previous tour.
 Peñíscola's
south littoral is scarped and rocky. It is splashed with tiny beaches and high
cliffs that form peaceful coves. On this coast Irta's
Saw is situated. Close to being protected by means of the figure of Natural
Place, it is a mountainous alignment with 573 m. Of maximum height and 15 km
from coastal front.
The historical absence of human accessions of importance they allow the presence
of the natural and ethnological only values that have given in defining it as
the last virgin saw of the Valencian Community. In the small coves that
Irta draws, the practice of the skin-diving or
the fishing with fishline they us present a dimension different from relation
with the sea and the nature.
Irta's Saw relies on a system of signposting that
it directs us for some of the ways of easier access; the points of
beginning of itineraries think along the highway that the Coast crosses South.
The ways put up signs with indicators of wood are tracks of land adapted to
travel with diverse means.
There exists the possibility of realizing tours astride, as well as crossed by foot by the paths of the high part of the
saw, endowed with a specific
system of signposting. In Irta's Saw we can visit
the hermitage of San Antonio that dates back of the XVIth century. The set is
formed by the own hermitage, the house of the hermit and the hostelry
that they delimit a court from which railing spies the excellent
panoramic one.
Other places of interest:
Barcelona,
Valencia,
Delta
del Ebro, Morella,
Vall
d'Uixó, Andorra.
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