CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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384 km from Ulldecona to Ulldecona, about 9 h 18 of riding. On the way it passes Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin, Prop de la Cova Pintada, Roca dels moros and back through Prop de la Cova Pintada. The line favours views over speed.
At the southern edge of Catalonia, the mountains known as the Ports de Tortosa-Beseit rise from the plain like a wall, and they are among the wildest in the region. Rocky ridges, deep gorges and thick pine forest cover them, and they are the home of the Spanish ibex, a wild goat with long curved horns, which was nearly wiped out in the twentieth century and has made a comeback here. A lucky rider may see one on a crag. The shelter at Abric d'Ermites IX is on the lower slopes of the nearby Serra de Godall, about four and a half kilometres from Ulldecona, and carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain. The ride links it with Valmayor V.
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Abric d'Ermites IX is where the day begins. Next is Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the emptiest corners of the Valencian Community, a group of tiny stone villages scattered across rugged limestone mountains in the far north of Castellón, right where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragón meet. The Cova dels Rossegadors, also called the Cova del Polvorí, lies on the edge of this country near Rossell, with Mas de Barberans and Canet lo Roig the other nearby villages.
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Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Prop de la Cova Pintada.
The Ports massif rises abruptly at the meeting point of Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia, a tangle of limestone peaks, deep gorges and pine forest that feels surprisingly wild given how close it is to the Ebro delta and the coast. Prop de la Cova Pintada, meaning near the painted cave, sits on its southern side, between Mas de Barberans, Valderrobres and the old city of Tortosa.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Prop de la Cova Pintada. Next is Roca dels moros.
In 1903, a young man from Calaceite named Juan Cabré, who would go on to become one of Spain's pioneering archaeologists, found painted figures of deer and other animals in a rock shelter in the Calapatá ravine, between Calaceite and Cretas. The Roca dels Moros became one of the first sites of Levantine rock art identified in Spain, and it helped open up a whole new field of study. Today it is part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and a visit here is a small pilgrimage to the beginnings of that story.
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Roca dels moros, about halfway. Next is back through Prop de la Cova Pintada.
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Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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back through Prop de la Cova Pintada sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
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back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin comes up about 343 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric d'Ermites IX.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites IX write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric d'Ermites IX closes the day.
Abric d'Ermites IX → Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Roca dels moros is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roca dels moros → back through Prop de la Cova Pintada is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada → back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Abric d'Ermites IX is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.