What you can see on the Benicarló webcam
The camera stands above the harbour and moves between two views. One looks over the inner basin, with the fishing boats moored along the quay, the yachts of the marina and the white apartment blocks of the seafront behind. The other looks out to the harbour mouth: the long outer breakwater with its lighthouse, the red light on the inner pier and a beach running away beside it. Together they show the comings and goings of the port and the state of the sea outside.
Benicarló harbour webcam
This tourist-board camera stands above the harbour of Benicarló and turns between two views. One looks over the inner basin, with the red-hulled fishing boats moored along the quay, the yachts of the marina and the white apartment blocks of the seafront behind. The other looks out to the harbour mouth: the long outer breakwater with its lighthouse, the red light at the end of the inner pier and a beach running away to the right.
The fishing fleet is still an important part of the town, and the harbour view shows when the boats are in. The outer view is the one for weather: it shows how much swell is running past the breakwater and whether the beach beside it is calm.
The town of the artichoke
Benicarló's best-known product grows in the fields around the town: the Benicarló artichoke has its own protected designation of origin, and the town celebrates it every winter. The harbour has long been the other heart of the place, with a fishermen's guild that still lands its catch here. The name goes back to an Arab farmstead, Beni-Gazló, taken by James I of Aragon in the thirteenth century.
When to watch Benicarló
The harbour faces the sea to the east, and the morning sun shines across the water towards the camera. Mainland Spain is one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland. Late afternoon, when the boats return, is the liveliest time in the harbour; on stormy days the outer view shows the swell breaking against the breakwater.
Around Benicarló
The town's beaches, among them Morrongo, Gurugú and Caracola, line the coast either side of the harbour. Peñíscola's castle is a few miles south along the seafront, and Vinaròs is just to the north. Inland, the Iberian village site of the Puig de la Nau overlooks the plain.
Visiting Benicarló
Benicarló shares a station with Peñíscola on the Valencia to Barcelona line and lies about 85 miles (140 km) north of Valencia. A promenade and cycle path follow the coast all the way to Peñíscola, an easy outing on foot or by bike.
