Costa del Azahar Map

The orange-blossom coast is Castellón province, and it is the quietest stretch of the Valencian shore. Peñíscola’s walled town sits on a rock almost surrounded by sea; behind the beaches the plain is orange groves, which is where the name comes from. It is the coast people drive past on the way to Valencia or Barcelona, and that is most of its appeal.

What is plotted on the Costa del Azahar map

The map carries 12 places on this coast: 5 towns, 4 historic sites, 2 natural parks, 1 theme park. They span roughly 71 km in a straight line, from Morella in the north to Castelló Co-Cathedral in the south.

The Costa del Azahar coast, north to south

Every marker on the map, in the order you would meet it driving south. The distance is a straight line from the place above it.

Place	Type	From previous
Morella	Historic site	—
Vinaròs	Town	51 km
Peñíscola	Town	14 km
Peñíscola Castle A pope who refused to accept his own excommunication ran a one-man papacy from Peñíscola Castle for twelve years, surviving	Historic site	0 km
Serra d’Irta	Natural park	9 km
Alcossebre	Town	11 km
Arch of Cabanes Local legend says the Arch of Cabanes was built overnight by moonlight — archaeologists still aren’t entirely certain why this	Historic site	23 km
Oropesa del Mar	Town	14 km
Desert de les Palmes Natural Park Desert de les Palmes isn’t actually a desert — it’s named after a Carmelite retreat tradition, and shelters a chapel-pantheon	Natural park	9 km
Benicàssim	Town	4 km
Aquarama Water Park Aquarama sits directly on the Mediterranean, home to The Devil’s Drop — one of the world’s eleventh-highest waterslides — since	Theme park	1 km
Castelló Co-Cathedral Castelló’s bell tower stands entirely separate from its cathedral — earning it the nickname El Fadrí, “the bachelor,” and 164	Historic site	10 km

By what you are looking for

Town (5): Vinaròs, Peñíscola, Alcossebre, Oropesa del Mar, Benicàssim

Historic site (4): Morella, Peñíscola Castle, Arch of Cabanes, Castelló Co-Cathedral

Natural park (2): Serra d’Irta, Desert de les Palmes Natural Park

Theme park (1): Aquarama Water Park

How to read the map

Each marker is coloured by place type, so a glance tells you whether a point is a beach, a town or a natural park. Clicking a marker opens its name, type and a link to the full page. The checkbox bar above the map filters by type: untick everything except beaches to see only the coastline, or leave only historic sites to plan a day inland. Markers cluster when zoomed out, so a number in a circle means several places sit close together — zoom in and the cluster splits.

For the coast written up as a single read, see the Costa del Azahar guide or the region page.

How to use this map

The map is scoped to this coast: the pins are the destinations on it, not the whole of Spain. The filters above narrow it further — show only beaches, or only coves, viewpoints, castles, museums or natural parks.

Town guides on this coast

For the coast in words, see the full guide, or the region page for its destinations by area. Every Spanish coast is on the main CostaMap map.

Every place we have mapped on the Costa del Azahar

34 towns, beaches, coves and landmarks, kept up to date automatically.