Segurma alarms in Castellón
An alarm for your flat, your villa in the Marjaleria or your apartment on the coast.
Castellón at a glance
A flat in Rafalafena or the Grau that stands empty from eight to five, a villa in the Marjaleria, Benicàssim or La Coma de Borriol, an apartment in Orpesa, Marina d'Or, Peñíscola, Alcossebre or Moncofa owned by a family from Madrid, Zaragoza or Valencia and shut from October to June, a masía in Els Ports or the Maestrat: in Castellón the Segurma alarm is set up differently in each case, and its Alarm Receiving Centre alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil depending on the municipality. Here we explain it comarca by comarca.
Province of Castellón and neighbouring provinces · capital: Castellón de la Plana. Base map: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (CC BY 4.0).
- Who receives the alert
- The National Police or the Guardia Civil, depending on the municipality. Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre has it on record for your address and sends the alert with the video of the intrusion.
- Region
- Valencian Community · capital Castellón de la Plana
- Areas covered in detail
- 8 comarcas and 56 towns mentioned on this page; Segurma installs across the whole province.
- Usual lead time
- Segurma technician within 24-48 h in Castellón de la Plana and the surrounding area; elsewhere the date is confirmed in the survey.
- Price
- €24.90 a month for the first year, the same as everywhere in Spain; then €43.90 or €49.90 a month.
- Neighbouring provinces
What happens in Castellón when your alarm goes off
In the province of Castellón, public safety is handled by the National Police in the cities with a police station (Castellón de la Plana, Vila-real, Burriana, la Vall d'Uixó and Vinaròs) and by the Guardia Civil everywhere else: Benicàssim, Orpesa, Almassora, Onda, Nules, Benicarló, Peñíscola, Alcalà de Xivert, Torreblanca, Moncofa, l'Alcora, Borriol, Segorbe, Morella and all the villages. Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) has on record, for every home, which of the two forces is responsible; in the capital and the towns of the Plana the local police also receive alerts and patrol.
The sequence is always the same. A camera detector picks up movement in the living room while the system is armed, or a magnetic sensor notices the terrace sliding door opening. The alarm panel sends the ARC the signal, a few images of that moment and the audio from the room. An operator reviews them. If it is your brother-in-law who has popped in for the bike, nothing happens; if there is someone who should not be there, the alarm is confirmed as real and the ARC alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil with those images. You get the notification in the app at that moment, whether you are in Castellón, Madrid or Zaragoza, and can watch the cameras live.
The alert is made by Segurma, an authorised security company registered in the National Private Security Register under number 3082. It is an alert verified with images: for the Guardia Civil post in Orpesa in January, with Marina d'Or and thousands of apartments shut up, or for the one in Morella in Els Ports, that is the difference between a suspicion and a fact.
The Marjaleria, buildings empty in winter and masías without fibre
The Marjaleria in Castellón has hundreds of villas that spend weeks on their own, the coast has whole buildings where nobody lives in winter, and many masías (country farmhouses) in Els Ports, the Maestrat and the Alto Palancia have no fibre. The alarm panel has its own battery and communicates over your home line and over 4G/5G: if one route fails, the other keeps the link to the ARC.
Where Segurma installs in Castellón province
Across the whole province, from Vinaròs to Almenara and from the coast to Morella and Montanejos. These are the comarcas (districts) and the type of home we usually find in each one.
Castellón de la Plana
Flats in the Centro, Rafalafena, Sensal, the Gran Vía, Sant Llorenç, the Raval Universitari, Avenida Lledó, the Grau and the Ronda area, with plenty of ground-floor and first-floor flats onto the street; and hundreds of villas and houses with a plot in the Marjaleria (Camí Caminàs, Serradal, Entrilles, Ratllat), many of them weekend homes. In a flat you protect the front door, the reachable windows and the hallway; in a villa on the marjal (the marshland), the perimeter.
Plana Alta: Almassora, Benicàssim, Orpesa (Marina d'Or), Torreblanca, Cabanes, Borriol (La Coma), Vall d'Alba and Benlloch
Flats in Almassora, villas in Las Villas de Benicàssim and La Coma de Borriol, seasonal apartments in Benicàssim, Orpesa and Torrenostra, and masías inland. Outside the capital the Guardia Civil is alerted.
Plana Baixa: Vila-real, Burriana, la Vall d'Uixó, Nules, Onda, Betxí, Moncofa, Xilxes, Almenara, La Llosa and Alqueries
Flats in Vila-real, Burriana and la Vall (National Police stations), village houses, villas on the urbanisations of Onda and Betxí and beach apartments in Moncofa, Xilxes and Almenara. Nules, Onda and the coast are covered by the Guardia Civil.
Baix Maestrat: Vinaròs, Benicarló, Peñíscola, Alcalà de Xivert (Alcossebre), Sant Mateu, Traiguera, Càlig and Santa Magdalena
Flats in Vinaròs (National Police) and Benicarló, holiday apartments and villas in Peñíscola, Alcossebre and Las Fuentes owned by people from Madrid, Zaragoza and northern Europe, and masías inland.
Alcalatén and Alto Mijares: l'Alcora, Llucena, Figueroles, Montanejos, Cirat, Arañuel and Fanzara
Flats and houses in l'Alcora, villas on the urbanisations of l'Alcora and Llucena, village houses and second homes in Montanejos and the Mijares valley.
Alto Palancia: Segorbe, Viver, Jérica, Altura, Navajas, Soneja and Castellnovo
Flats in Segorbe, village houses with a yard and a great many second homes of families from Valencia and Castellón in Navajas, Jérica, Viver and Altura.
Els Ports and Alt Maestrat: Morella, Vilafranca, Forcall, Ares, Benassal, Albocàsser, Culla and Vistabella
Stone village houses and masías, many of them second homes or rural tourism lets, with the Guardia Civil post some distance away and power cuts in winter. Verification before alerting and 4G/5G are what make the alarm work here.
Espadà and the inland Plana: Eslida, Aín, Alcudia de Veo, Artana, Vilavella, Tales and Suera
Village houses, weekend villas in the sierra and homes that open up in summer and on long weekends.
If you cannot see your municipality, it does not matter: the whole province is within the service area and in the survey we confirm the timescale by postcode.
How burglars get into homes in Castellón and what stops them
Home burglaries almost always happen when the house is empty, in minutes, through the easiest way in. In Castellón that way in changes a great deal between a flat in Rafalafena, a villa in the Marjaleria and an apartment in Orpesa.
Flat in Castellón, Vila-real, Burriana, la Vall or Vinaròs
The front door (old locks opened with a plastic card or by bumping, or forced on a landing with no neighbours about), balconies and windows of ground-floor and first-floor flats that can be reached from the street or from a shop below, and penthouse terraces with access from the roof. A magnetic sensor on the door raises the alert at the first attempt; a camera detector in the hallway captures whoever comes in; the indoor siren makes an intruder in a block of flats leave.
Villa in the Marjaleria, Benicàssim, La Coma or l'Alcora
Lanes on the marjal with no passing traffic during the week, plots with a wall and sliding doors. The intruder comes over the back wall, checks whether anyone is in and goes for the living-room sliding door or a ground-floor window. The outdoor detector picks them up on the plot; the IP camera with audio in the Kit Tranquilidad Plus lets you watch from your phone; the ARC alerts the National Police or the Guardia Civil while they are still outside.
Holiday apartment in Orpesa, Marina d'Or, Benicàssim, Peñíscola, Alcossebre or Moncofa
The terrace sliding door in ground-floor and first-floor flats, and the front door in buildings that are half empty in winter, where nobody hears a thing. Magnetic sensor on the door and on the sliding door, a camera detector in the living room and an IP camera to look in on the apartment from Madrid or Zaragoza.
Masía or village house in Els Ports, the Maestrat, the Alto Palancia or Espadà
Several ways in (front door, threshing floor, yard, hay barn), and often not a neighbour in sight. Sensors on every access, camera detectors on the route they have to take and an outdoor detector. The panel, with its battery and 4G/5G, keeps the link to the ARC even if the power goes off.
When it happens
August and the Magdalena festival in Castellón, when the city empties or fills with people from out of town; winter in the coastal apartments, shut from October to June; weekdays in the villas of the Marjaleria; and long weekends in the masías inland. With the alarm armed and connected, those days stop being different.
Anti-squatter alarm in Castellón: the Marjaleria, closed-up apartments and inherited flats
In Castellón the homes that spend months empty are above all the villas in the Marjaleria and on the urbanisations that are used at weekends, the coastal apartments of families from Madrid, Zaragoza and Valencia shut from October to June, the inherited flats in the capital, Vila-real or Burriana that have not yet been sold or let, and the masías inland. These are exactly the homes where a squat takes weeks to be discovered.
If the entry is detected while it is happening, with images of someone forcing the sliding door, the National Police or the Guardia Civil can act on an offence in progress. If you find out when you arrive at Easter, what is left is a court case. The whole point of an anti-squatter alarm is that first minute.
What the system does in an empty house
- The magnetic sensors on doors, windows and sliding doors raise the alert at the first attempt to open them, not once the intruder has already changed the lock.
- The images from the camera detector go to the ARC straight away; there they are verified and the police are alerted with them.
- The deterrent sign and the siren stop the villa or the flat from looking abandoned, which is the first thing anyone choosing a home to squat looks for.
- With the IP camera in the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can look in on the house from your phone, whether you are in Castellón, Madrid or Zaragoza.
The legal framework, in short
Entering a home that is someone's dwelling (including a holiday home that is in use) is allanamiento de morada (breaking into a dwelling); entering a property that is not, usurpación (unlawful occupation). Since April 2025 both offences are handled through the fast-track procedure, but the practical difference remains: an intrusion detected and verified while it is happening allows action on the spot; a completed squat is settled in court. If you already have a squatting problem, speak to a lawyer; this page is no substitute for that advice.
More detail, with the full protocol, on the Segurma anti-squatter alarm page.
Holiday homes on the Costa de Azahar and inland
Vinaròs, Benicarló, Peñíscola, Alcossebre, Las Fuentes, Torrenostra, Orpesa, Marina d'Or, Benicàssim, the Grau, Burriana, Nules, Moncofa, Xilxes, Almenara: the Costa de Azahar is the beach for Madrid, Zaragoza, Teruel and half of Valencia, with homes that open in July and close in September, in buildings and on urbanisations where hardly anyone lives in January. Add to that the houses in Navajas, Jérica, Montanejos, Morella or Vilafranca that are used in summer and on long weekends.
What a house like that needs is not a siren, which nobody hears in Marina d'Or in February, but someone to check what is going on and alert the Guardia Civil or the National Police, plus the ability to look in on the house from your phone. The Kit Tranquilidad covers the first; the Kit Tranquilidad Plus adds the IP camera with audio for the second. In villas with a garden, the sensors on the sliding doors and the outdoor detector raise the alert before they touch the house.
The system is wireless and needs no building work, so there is no need to ask the community of owners for permission or to touch a masía. It communicates over 4G/5G as well as over the home line, so you do not need to take out a fibre contract for the holiday home.
Everything that changes when the house sits empty for months: alarm for holiday homes.
Which kit for each home in the province
The final kit is decided in the survey; these are the combinations that come up most often in Castellón. Tap your type of home to see which kit it needs and what it includes.
Flat in Castellón, Vila-real, Burriana, la Vall or Vinaròs
Kit Tranquilidad: panel, keypad, indoor siren, two camera detectors (hallway and living room), magnetic sensor on the front door, key fob remote and tags. In ground-floor flats, first-floor flats and penthouses, magnetic sensors on balconies and reachable windows too.
Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
Camera detector
Magnetic sensors
Indoor siren
Keypad
Villa in the Marjaleria, Benicàssim, La Coma de Borriol or l'Alcora
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with an IP camera to see the garden and entrance from your phone and an outdoor detector for the plot. Sensors on the living-room sliding doors, on the garage door if it connects to the house and on the doors that open onto the garden. Panel with 4G/5G and battery.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
Outdoor detector
IP camera with audio- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Beach apartment in Orpesa, Marina d'Or, Peñíscola, Alcossebre or Moncofa
Kit Tranquilidad Plus for the IP camera; magnetic sensor on the front door and on the terrace sliding door if it is reachable, camera detector in the living room. Out of season, what you want is to look in on the apartment and have the ARC check every alert.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Magnetic sensors
- IP camera with audio
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Townhouse in Almassora, Vila-real, Onda or Benicarló
Kit Tranquilidad with sensors on the front door, the patio sliding door and the garage, and a camera detector in the living room. If the patio opens onto a communal area or an orchard, an outdoor detector.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Outdoor detector
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Masía or village house in Els Ports, the Maestrat, the Alto Palancia or Espadà
Kit Tranquilidad with sensors on every access (front door, threshing floor, yard) and an outdoor detector; Kit Plus if you want to look in from your phone. Panel with 4G/5G where the landline is poor and a battery for power cuts.
- Control panel with battery and 4G/5G
- Camera detector
- Outdoor detector
- Indoor siren
- Keypad
Shop or business in Castellón
For a shop, a pharmacy, a bar, an office or a warehouse on the ceramics industrial estate the set-up is different (IP camera with audio, panic button, arming schedules) and VAT is not included in the monthly fee. It is all explained on alarms for businesses.
Typical situations in Castellón
Three cases that come up often in survey calls from the province, explained without specific details so you can recognise yours.
The villa in the Marjaleria used at weekends
A lane with no passing traffic during the week, a plot with a wall and sliding doors. Outdoor detector, sensors on every sliding door and door, a camera detector in the living room and an IP camera to look in from the flat in Castellón; the ARC checks every alert and calls the National Police with the images.
The apartment in Orpesa, Peñíscola or Alcossebre owned by a family from Madrid or Zaragoza
Opened up in July and at Easter; the rest of the year, a half-empty building. Sensor on the door and on the sliding door, a camera detector in the living room, Kit Plus to look in from home. No fibre: the panel communicates over 4G/5G.
The inherited flat in Sensal or Vila-real waiting to be sold
Empty for months. Sensors on the door and the reachable windows, a camera detector in the entrance hall and a deterrent sign on the door: if someone gets in, the ARC alerts the National Police while it is happening, not when the family turns up to show the flat.
Common mistakes when protecting a home in Castellón
Survey calls in the province always throw up the same slips. These are the ones we see most.
- Leaving the villa in the Marjaleria with nothing because 'it is only for weekends'. That is exactly why: a house shut five days a week on a lane with no passing traffic is the first thing anyone looking for a home to burgle or squat notices. The entry has to be detected in the first minute.
- Forgetting the sliding doors. In the villas and apartments on the coast the sliding door is the number one way in. A magnetic sensor on each one.
- Leaving the masía with nothing because 'there is no internet'. The panel communicates over 4G/5G and has a battery: in Els Ports, the Maestrat or the Alto Mijares it works without fibre and rides out power cuts.
- A standalone camera instead of an Alarm Receiving Centre. It shows you the burglary after the event from Madrid; nobody checks it or calls the police. What counts is an operator looking at the images at the time and alerting the police with them.
- Waiting until Easter to see how the apartment is. A closed-up home with no sign and no alarm is the perfect candidate for a squat that, by the time you discover it, is already a matter for the courts.
- Not mentioning the pet. A detector fitted without taking it into account goes off with the dog and ends up switched off; in the survey the position is chosen so the pet does not set it off.
What works
Covering the real ways into your home (sliding doors and plot included), having the alarm connected to an Alarm Receiving Centre that verifies before alerting, the indoor siren so the intruder leaves, and the app so you know straight away wherever you are. In a province where the coast empties in winter and the marjal during the week, that combination is what stops a burglary or a squat from being completed.
Price of the Segurma alarm in Castellón
The price is the national one Segurma publishes; in Castellón there is no surcharge for the coast, the Plana or the inland areas.
- Control panel connected 24/7 to Segurma's Alarm Receiving Centre
- Camera detectors for verification
- Keypad, indoor siren and key fob remote
- Police alert with video and audio
- Mobile app to control everything
- Everything in Kit Tranquilidad
- IP surveillance camera with audio
- Live view from your phone
- Additional coverage detector
- Recording and visual verification
Both kits come with the panel with battery and 4G/5G, keypad, indoor siren, deterrent sign, camera detectors, key fob remote and tags, and the app. Extra elements (outdoor detector, additional magnetic sensors for sliding doors, smoke detector, a second IP camera) are quoted in the survey with their own monthly fee. The minimum contract term and the cancellation conditions are set by Segurma's contract; we give them to you in writing before you sign. Full breakdown and the cost over 24 months on the Segurma prices page.
The parts of the alarm, one by one
The elements most often added in Castellón: magnetic sensors, outdoor detector, ip camera with audio. Everything is decided in the survey according to your home; here is each part explained in plain language, with its fee when it is an extra.
Guide prices for add-on parts (monthly fee, VAT included). The control panel and the parts in your kit are included in the monthly fee; the system is extended to suit your home's needs after a free survey.
Installation in Castellón: timescales and the visit
In Castellón, the Plana and on the coast, Segurma's technician usually installs within 24 to 48 hours of the sign-up being completed; in Els Ports, the Maestrat, the Alto Palancia and the Alto Mijares the timescale is confirmed in the survey according to the schedule for the area. If the owner is not in Castellón, the visit is arranged with whoever holds the keys.
We talk about your home
Flat, villa on the marjal, beach apartment, townhouse or masía; ways in and sliding doors; pets; how long it stands empty. We propose a kit in writing with the month 13 fee clearly shown.
The technician comes
Segurma's technician fits the panel, the detectors and the siren in one visit, with no chasing of walls or visible cables, checks that the system works and shows you how to arm it, disarm it and use the app.
You are connected
Your home communicates with the ARC day and night and the alert to the National Police or the Guardia Civil is configured for your municipality.
This website is run by Segurma Alarmas, which looks after the advice, the survey and the sign-up. Installation, maintenance and the Alarm Receiving Centre are Segurma's, and Segurma is who you sign the contract with. If you would prefer the survey call in Valencian, let us know.
What Segurma customers say
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Questions about the alarm in Castellón
The National Police in Castellón de la Plana, Vila-real, Burriana, la Vall d'Uixó and Vinaròs, which have a police station, and the Guardia Civil in the other municipalities (Benicàssim, Orpesa, Almassora, Onda, Nules, Benicarló, Peñíscola, Alcossebre, Segorbe, Morella and so on). Segurma's ARC has it on record for your address and alerts them after checking with video and audio that the intrusion is real. You get the notification in the app at the same time.
€24.90 a month for the first 12 months, VAT included, with equipment and installation included. After that, €43.90 a month for the Kit Tranquilidad or €49.90 a month for the Kit Tranquilidad Plus. The promotion ends on 31 October. There is no surcharge by province; extra elements are quoted in the survey.
Kit Tranquilidad Plus with an outdoor detector: sensors on every sliding door and door, a camera detector in the living room, a detector on the plot and an IP camera to look in on the villa from Castellón. Segurma's ARC checks every alert and calls the National Police if there is someone inside. The panel has a battery and 4G/5G, so it does not depend on the power or on fibre.
Yes. The survey is done by phone, the installation is arranged with whoever holds the keys and the app works from anywhere. Segurma's ARC checks every alert and calls the Guardia Civil with the images; you get the notification at the same time. With the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can look in on the apartment whenever you like.
It works by detecting the entry at the moment it happens, which is when the National Police can act on an offence in progress. The sensors raise the alert at the first attempt to open, the camera detector takes images of whoever comes in and Segurma's ARC verifies them before alerting. A squat discovered weeks later is already a matter for the courts; the alarm is there so you never get to that point.
Yes. The alarm panel has a built-in 4G/5G line and its own battery, so it works without fibre and stays connected to Segurma's ARC if the power goes off. In the survey we check the mobile coverage in your area; it is the usual set-up in Els Ports, the Maestrat and the Alto Mijares.
Yes. The equipment is wireless, goes in without building work and comes out without leaving any marks worth mentioning, so there is no need to renovate anything or change the door. It is courteous to let the landlord know. You sign the contract with Segurma yourself as the user of the service.
Segurma is a national security company based in Loiu (Bizkaia), with its own Alarm Receiving Centre and technicians who install across the whole province of Castellón. Segurma Alarmas, which runs this website, sells its systems: we advise you, do the survey and handle the sign-up; the service and the contract are Segurma's.
Nearby provinces
If your home is in a neighbouring province, it has its own page with the police protocol and the areas covered there. The provinces with an English page are listed under Segurma alarms by province; the rest are in Spanish.
Tell us about your home in Castellón and we tell you what it needs
A call of a few minutes, a kit proposed in writing and you decide at your own pace. Equipment and installation included in the monthly fee.