Settlement Type: | municipality |
Official Name: | Villamalur |
Pushpin Map: | Spain |
Pusphin Map Caption: | Location in Spain. |
Subdivision Name3: | Alto Mijares |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Lorenzo Gimeno Alegre |
Area Total Km2: | 19.50 |
Elevation M: | 644 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 39.9644°N -0.3953°W |
Villamalur is a municipality in the comarca of Alto Mijares, province of Castellón, Valencian Community, southern Spain.
Sights include the castle, with an irregularly polygonal plan (10th - 13th century)
The origins of the town are unknown, although it has been supposed that it grew around the Moorish castle located nearby. In 1236 it was part of the possessions of Zayd Abu Zayd, the last Almohad governor of Valencia. Later it was a center of the Moriscos, but after their suppression it was repopulated by people from Castile during the first half of the 17th century.