Benicarló

Benicarlo is a municipality in the Spanish province of Castellón in the north of the Valencian Community. It lies on the Mediterranean coast and is a popular destination for national and international tourism.

Transport and the economy

Besides tourism, agriculture plays an important economic role, especially the cultivation of artichokes. The artichoke is a component of the coat of arms Benicarlós, also the Fiesta de la Alcachofa ( Artichoke Festival dt ) is annually celebrated. Benicarlo has a harbor and maintains a fleet of more than 50 ships, bring the annual average of 1.5 million kilograms of marine animals, including red mullet, monkfish, octopus and sole. The wine, which represented the main industry of the town in the 19th century, after a phylloxera, almost all dead vines at, received.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Fernando Vicente ( b. 1977 ), tennis player

Pictures

Ermita Sant Gregori

Church of Sant Bartomeu

Beach at the Parador de Benicarlo