Events, local discoveries and useful stories for your time here.
Oropesa del Mar sits on the Costa del Azahar, the "orange-blossom coast" north of Castellón, with an old watchtower town on a headland between two long beaches. Once a small fishing settlement, it's grown into a family-holiday resort — including the vast Marina d'Or complex — but keeps a quieter old core and a marina between the sandy bays.
The summer mixes fiesta and the arts. The San Juan and San Pedro fiestas open the season, the Virgen del Carmen maritime procession honours the fishermen's saint, and the calendar makes room for the ORFIM international music festival and the long-running Titéres a la Mar puppet festival for families. Here's what's on while you're here.
23Jun
Summer kicks off on the night of 23 June (San Juan's eve) with beach bonfires, fireworks and street parties, running thr
16Jul
A week-long open-air international puppet festival with nightly free shows by Spanish and visiting companies, staged in
16Jul
Each 16 July Oropesa honours the patron saint of the sea with a spectacular seafaring procession, as a flotilla of up to
1Aug
Open-air classical music festival held over about five nights in early August in the streets of the old town, with a wid
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