Walk Along the Breakwater, Peñiscola

Before saying goodbye to Peñíscola, I took a short walk along the breakwater pier of the fishing port.

The base of the pier is made up of giant blocks of stone, and we can only guess how they were brought here. On the concrete terraces that descend to the water, during the holiday season, crowds of vacationers gather in the evenings to watch the sunset.

Now you can only meet single fishermen here.

The length of the pier is more than 600 meters, it protects not only the fishing harbor, but also the southern beach of the city from waves and wind.

Approximately in the middle of the pier is the entrance to the harbor, marked with red and green lighthouses.

From the end of the pier, you can see all the main historical sites of Peñiscola: the blue walls and the bell tower of the Church of St. Mary, above is the absolutely identical bell tower of the Church of Our Lady of Hermitana, built a century earlier, at the highest point of the island you can see the battlements of the castle built by the Templars in the early 14th century, the last refuge of the schismatic antipope Benedict XIII, known as Pope Luna.

Looking in the other direction, above the rocky cliff we will see the new area Cerromar (Urbaizacion Cerromar), built up with villas and housing complexes. The area was created only recently, as part of a program to attract investors to Valencia, but due to the pan-European economic downturn, so far most townhouses and apartments are still waiting for their buyers.

On the way back, you can clearly see the eastern walls of the fortress, protecting the city from the sea.

At the point where the pier connects to the otrov, under the fortress wall there is an entrance to a natural grotto that has access to the surface behind the Botnet bastion. The cave is called Bufador, the waves in the grotto make "buff-buff" sounds, so the inhabitants of Peñíscola gave it the name "Bufador".