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Peníscola
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Peníscola () or Peñíscola () and officially Peníscola/Peñíscola, anglicised as Peniscola, is a municipality in the Province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The town is located on the Costa del Azahar, north of the Serra d'Irta along the Mediterranean coast. It is a popular tourist destination.
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- Peniscola
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- Peníscola (Valencian)Peñíscola (Spanish)
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- Peniscola from the beach. Year 1985.jpg
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- Peniscola from the beach
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- Spain Valencian Community#Spain
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- Autonomous community
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- Valencian Community
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- Province
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- Castellón
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- Comarca
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- 46
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Castellón
- Official name
- Peñíscola
- Demonym
- peniscolà
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Castellón
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Catalan
- Population
- 8774
- Area
- 79
- Elevation
- 46
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Shares border with
- Càlig
- Official website
- peniscola.es
- Image
- Peniscola plages.JPG
- Licence plate code
- CS
- Patron saint
- Anthony the Great
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- twinned administrative body
- Hondarribia
- postal code
- 12598
- Commons category
- Peniscola
- topic's main category
- Category:Peniscola
- inception
- 0600-00-00
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- male population
- 3849
- female population
- 3763
- phone number
- +34-964-48-00-50
- P8168
- Adana degli Armeni
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Peníscola () or Peñíscola () and officially Peníscola/Peñíscola, anglicised as Peniscola, is a municipality in the Province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The town is located on the Costa del Azahar, north of the Serra d'Irta along the Mediterranean coast. It is a popular tourist destination.
==History== Peniscola, often called the "Gibraltar of Valencia", and locally as "The City in the Sea", is a fortified seaport, with a lighthouse, built on a rocky headland about 220 feet (67 m) high, and joined to the mainland by only a narrow strip of land (tombolo). Peníscola is a local evolution of Latin peninsula. The history of the place goes back to the Iberians. Later the town became Phoenician, named Tyreche, then Greek, under the name Chersonesos (meaning "peninsula"). It was next captured by the Carthaginians under Hamilcar Barca; legend has it that this is the place where he made his son Hannibal swear an oath that he would never be a friend of Rome.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peníscola” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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