{"id":639,"date":"2010-02-02T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2014-05-10T06:51:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T06:51:37","slug":"benicassim-costa-del-azahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/benicassim-costa-del-azahar\/","title":{"rendered":"Benicassim Costa del Azahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular coastal resort on the Costa del Azahar, Valencia, Spain, Benicassim is also the location of the annual \u201cInternational Festival of Rock Music\u201d which is held during July\/August each year, attracting thousands of visitors to the town from far and wide. Some bands have already been confirmed for the 2010 festival which this year takes place on 15<sup>th<\/sup>-18<sup>th<\/sup> July, and these include The Prodigy, The Specials, Ian Brown, Dizzee Rascal, PiL and Kasabian. Benicassim is situated in the province of Castellon between Orpesa and Castellon de la Plana, and is a busy holiday resort in the summer months, it has some excellent sandy beaches and a good choice of amenities. Benicassim has a history going back to Roman times and beyond (possibly Iron Age), its ruined castle was built in the 10th century by the occupying Moors, it became one of El Cid&#8217;s connquests during the late 11th century, and was overun by\u00a0Jaime I in the 13th century. Benicassim\u00a0can be accessed from the A-7 motorway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular coastal resort on the Costa del Azahar, Valencia, Spain, Benicassim is also the location of the annual \u201cInternational Festival of Rock Music\u201d which is held during July\/August each year, attracting thousands of visitors to the town from far and wide. Some bands have already been confirmed for the 2010 festival which this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,18],"tags":[489,203,490,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}