Museo Tiempo de Dinosaurios

Castellón Province


The Maestrazgo’s remote hills have been a treasure trove for palaeontologists and this small museum in a church near the tourist office exhibits a collection of dinosaur bones and other fossils, along with a model of the iguanodon, the creature from which some of them belong. Information panels are in Valenciano only.


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