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Title: Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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lies the Ermita de Santa Maria Magdalena. —Castellon is a good starting-point for excursions in the Sierra deEspadan and the -Sierra de Espinas, both to the N. of Segorbe(p. 300), and via Lucena to thePeno Golosa (5950 ft.), a precipitousand creviced limestone hill (visible from the railway). Beyond Castellon the railway passes through some fine orange-groves. It then traverses a stony desert and enters the huerta ofVillarreal, which is watered by the Mijares and affords an admirableexample of this style of scenery. We cross the river (to the right,the road-bridge, with its 13 arches) and the Castellon Canal, thelatter a magnificent piece of Moorish engineering, which has servedthe purposes of irrigation for six long centuries. 80 M. Villarreal, a town of 15,065 inhab., beautifully situatedamong orange-groves, topped here and there by solitary palms andblue cupolas. The water-pitchers of the women resemble those ofclassic times, and the popular types seen here are full of interest.
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to Valencia. SAGUNTO. 31. Route. 297 The waters of the Mijares are disseminated throughout the plainas far as (83 M.) Burriana (Brit, vice-consul). 87 M. Nules (4200 in-hab.). To the W. we see the Sierra de Espaddn. — About 2/2 M.to the N.W. of Nules (omnibus) are the thermal springs (85-110°Fahr.) of Villavieja. 92 M. Chilches. — The railway leaves the plain and enters thehill-district of (95 M.) Almenara (Arabic al-Minar, p. xl), withits prominent Castillo (right), formerly the key of the Moorish king-dom of Valencia. Don Jaime I. defeated the Moors here in 1238and was thus able to overrun the country. The battlefield is markedby a chapel. The flourishing condition of the land in the Romanperiod is indicated by the remains of a temple at Almenara, anaqueduct at Chelva, an arch at Cabanes, and numerous tombstonesand inscriptions. The train enters the province of Valencia. —97Y2 M. Los Valles, the station for the villages of Ouartell, Faur6,Benifaird, Benavites, and Santa Colom

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