Benicarló is a city and municipality in the north of the province of Castelló

Castellón (province)

Castellón or Castelló is a province in the northern part of the Valencian Community, Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Valencia to the south, Teruel to the west, Tarragona to the north, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the east. The western side of the province is in the mountainous...

, part of the Valencian Community, in the Mediterranean Coast between the cities of Vinaròs

Vinaròs

Vinaròs is a town and municipality in eastern Spain, in the province of Castelló and part of the autonomous Valencian Community. The town is on the Gulf of Valencia coast of the western Mediterranean Sea, Vinaròs is a fishing harbour and tourist destination....

 and Peníscola

Peñíscola

Peníscola or Peñíscola 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...

, not too far south from the Ebre River

Ebro

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Tourism, agriculture and some manufacturing are the major industries. Benicarló is part of the Taula del Sénia

Taula del Sénia

The Taula del Sénia or Mancomunitat de la Taula del Sénia is a mancomunitat or free association of municipalities made up of 22 towns, totalling up to 100,000 people, of some of the comarcas that make up the center of the historical region of Ilercavonia , Spain...

 free association of municipalities.

Benicarló is served by a train station in the Valencia-Barcelona line, and is connected by road through the A7 Highway.

Main sights

• Chapel of Cristo del Mar
• Parish church of Sant Bartolomeu (18th century). It has a Baroque
  Baroque architecture
  Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...
  
   façade, an octagonal bell tower and a dome over the transept
  Transept
  For the periodical go to The Transept.A transept is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In Christian churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture...
  
  . The interior, on a single nave, houses a retablo attributed to Vicente Juan Masip.
• Convent of St. Francis (1578)
• Hermitage of St. Gregory, located c. 2 km outside the city.