Canet d'En Berenguer is a town in the province of Valencia. Valencia., Spain belongs to the region of Campo de Morvedre.
Located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea near the mouth of the river Palancia. The surface of the water is completely flat. The river Palancia circulates throughout the southern boundary. An outgoing sand crop on the left side of the mouth of the river, way out of the so-called Canet, whera a lighthouse was installed in 1904, with a tower of 30 meters in height and octagonal base, whose white light reaches a radius of 25 miles . The climate is Mediterranean; The prevailing winds are released from the northeast. In its municipality is the port of Siles.
In the municipality of Canet d'En Berenguer is also the core population Beach Canet, also known as Racó de Mar.
Canet d'En Berenguer is surrounded by the town of Sagunto, in the province of Valencia. and the Mediterranean Sea.
The history of Canet is linked to that of Sagunto. The first historical vestiges of the population, are two Roman tombstones with Latin inscription. The Romanization of the Valencian land is consumed with the intervention of Sertorio (1987-1972 BC). The Muslim domination (S. VIII) was a quick and intense Islamization of the population, although there remained significant nuclei Mozarab.
With the reconquest of James I, in the thirteenth century, the landscape changes abruptly. He gave two villages located in Sagunto 1 km from the sea, to the monks of the convent Puig.
This in turn covers half of the fourteenth century with Francis Berenguer. According to the historian Escolano, Valterra Blanes of Berenguer in the sixteenth century, the place was walled and contained 45 houses of Christians of old, accommodating one of the five companies of gentlemen who kept the coast.
In the year 1797 the botanist Cavanilles aware of the existence of 100 neighbors in Canet d'En Berenguer, dedicated to the cultivation of silk, oil, carobs, wine, wheat and barley, and there was no irrigated agriculture. In 1904 the current lighthouse was built 30 meters in height with a range of 25 miles and whose characteristic different from others, in that it is 300 m inland.
The proximity to Valencia., its good communications with the capital and the important development in the tourism sector have led to a dramatic growth in recent years.
