Castellon - Valencian Community

It is a bilingual territory, with almost all inhabitants speaking Spanish, and very many also speaking the locally-official Valencian dialect of the Catalan language.

Other major cities of the province include Vila-real (Spanish: Villarreal), Burriana and Vinaras. There are 135 municipalities in Castellón.

The Capital - Castellón de la Plana

Most of the historical buildings are located in the diminutive old town, around the Plaza Mayor (Main Square). These include:

The Gothic Concatedral de Santa Maria (Procathedral of Saint Mary), built in the 13th century and reconstructed one century later after destruction by fire.

The Ayuntamiento (City Hall), erected at the beginning of the 18th century. It features a pretty Tuscan-style fasade rising up over a colonnade.
The standing bell-tower of the procathedral, known as El Fadrí (the single one), built at the turn of the 17th century.
The Llotja del Cànem (Hemp Exchange Market), built during the first half of the 17th century to be used by traders in hempen cloth and ropes, a very important activity in the area at the time. Today the building is used by the University for cultural events and temporary exhibitions.
On the northwest edge of the town, at the end of a broad avenue decorated with orange trees, stands the Basilica of Santa María de Lledó, a basilica devoted to an image of the Virgin Mary found in 1366 by a farmer when he was ploughing his lands. The original 14th-century chapel was extended to its present Baroque form during the 16th century. The complex is surrounded by a landscapedgarden.