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This series of photographs in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia have been captured in Peñíscola at sunset, when the Mediterranean opens wide like a window to observe the spring sunset.
Peñíscola, located on the north coast of the province of Castellón, in the Bajo Maestrazgo region, has had the title of city since 1707. Since January 2013, it has been part of the network of the most beautiful towns in Spain.
The visibility of the sea is exceptional. Not in vain is it located on a tombolo, a rocky peninsula, originally connected to the land only by an isthmus of sand, which made it easy to defend, although it occasionally flooded and was buried under the water of the Mediterranean. Currently, due to the construction of the port and the buildings on the isthmus, this curious fact no longer occurs.
On the rock rises its old town, from which the castle of Papa Luna stands out, dividing the coast of Peñíscola into two completely different halves.
Peñíscola has wide beaches both north and south of the castle peninsula, which in summer are full of bathers.
The municipality of Peñíscola includes one of the most virgin coastal mountain ranges on the Valencian coast, that of Irta, which ends in the sea on a low rocky coast and, at some points, with high cliffs, such as Badum.
