Located on the Costa del Azahar (Orange Blossom Coast), north of the Serra d'Irta along the Mediterranean coast, Peniscola, often called the "Gibraltar of Valencia," and locally as "The City in the Sea", is a fortified seaport, built on a rocky headland about 67m high, and joined to the mainland by only a narrow strip of land. The history of the place goes back to the Iberians. Later the town became Phoenician, then Greek, and finally Carthaginian.
