Villarreal (, officially Catalan: Vila-real) is a city in the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community.
The city is located at 42m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital (Castellón de la Plana), which it is separate from by the Mijares River. it has 51,367 inhabitants (2010 data), most of them living in the urban area that covers about 10.72% of its comarca's 55.4 km2 surface. Ranked by population, it is the second-largest city in the province (after the capital), and fifteenth in the Valencian Community.
The city was founded with royal status by King James I of Aragon in 1274 during his campaign to regain Muslim territory in present-day Valencia during the Reconquista. It later became an agricultural centre for orange cultivation, and more recently a centre for the ceramics industry.
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