The town of Portell de Morella is premiered as the venue for one of the stages of the VCV – Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. In fact, the cycling caravan of the VCV has not even passed through the town in any of its routes since 2016 when it returned to the calendar by the hand of Ángel Casero.
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166 inhabitants
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Les Ports, Castellón
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Portell de Morella is a town that offers different alternatives for the practice of sports, especially everything related to mountain sports. The trails that link the town with Vilafranca or Castellfort are good examples of this, as well as the different mountain bike routes that can be found in the municipality of Portell de Morella.
Traditionally based on rainfed agriculture and mainly on livestock (wool and goat). There are two industries dedicated to the manufacture of knitwear and other handcrafted textile materials. Portillo still conserves the textile elaboration as one of its main traditional activities, which uses quality products that today are used in the Sanfermines of Pamplona, the Holy Week of Seville or the Castelleros of Catalonia.
The town of Portell de Morella has many attractions considered historical heritage, such as the Plaça i Ajuntament, a recently restored 17th century building; the Casa Abadia, attached to the church built around 1750, one of the first church-hall temples in the Valencian Community. El Calvari, the Ermita de Sant Marc, the public washing places and El Castell are other examples of this extensive historical and cultural heritage.
The first documented evidence of human presence corresponds to archaeological sites and cave paintings, ranging from the Magdalenian period to the Epipaleolithic and then the Mesolithic. Until the reform of the municipal nomenclature in 1916 the municipality was simply called Portell. On that date its name was changed to Portell de Morella.
The gastronomy of Portell coincides with the typical cuisine of the inland villages of the province of Castelló. It highlights the “recapte”, type of pot of the maestrazgo, the abundant and quality meat such as lamb chops, all parts of the pig, “meat balls”,… and it is also appreciated the sausage: “onion and rice black pudding”, black pudding, the bolo, sausages,… Without forgetting the sweets: mantecados, almonds, rossegons, etc…