It is located in a hilly site, c. 30 km north of Valencia, close to the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea.
It is an important metallurgical center, with iron and steel foundries.
Sagunt ( also named Sagunto in Castilian) is a town which offers a two millennia history written in ancient stone, a town of contrasts and contradictions, for it is both modern and ancient, new and old, rural and urban, preterite yet future, inland yet close to the sea, having extended its tentacles to the shore of the Mediterranean.
The Port of Sagunt is home to industry and tourism, which are the major economic activities, together with citrus fruit production.
The city fell to the Moors and was called Murviedro until its old name was restored in 1877. In 1874 the restoration of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty was proclaimed there.
