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ID: 7007600
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007600
Record Type:
administrative
Castellón de la Plana (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 000 02 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.0333
decimal degrees
Note:
Originally situated on La Magdalena Hill; relocated to present location N of Valencia city on fecund plain near Mediterranean shore in 1251; noted for 14th-cen. Gothic Santa María church, with unusual separate belfry, & 17th-cen. town hall.
Names:
Castellón de la Plana
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Castelló de la Plana
(
C
,
V
)
Castellón
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Spain
(nation) (
P
)
............
Valencian Community
(autonomous community) (
P
)
................
Castellón
(province) (
P
)
....................
Castellón de la Plana
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
relocated to present site in 13th cen.
city (
C
)
............
status given 1873
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since 1833
Sources and Contributors:
Castelló de la Plana..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
35
Castellón..........
[
VP
]
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Castellón de la Plana..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
......................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 932
......................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
......................................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
40
......................................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 932
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-376967
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
35
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
40
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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