Morella is an ancient walled city on a hill-top in the province of Castellan, Valencian Community. The town is the capital of the comarca of Els Ports, in the historic Maestrat region.
Every six years the citizens celebrate the Sexenni, a commemoration of the town's recovery from the plague in the seventeenth century. Typical gastronomic products of Morella are sweets known as flaons. Local bakeries are also renowned for a number of other traditional pastries and sweets, like mantecadas.