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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From Ulldecona it runs 384 km to Ulldecona; allow about 9 h 18 of riding. The stops in between: 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.
The Hospitallers once held Ulldecona, the knightly order that grew out of a hospital for pilgrims in Jerusalem and ended up with castles all over southern Catalonia. The town still has the look of a fortified place, with a tall church, narrow lanes and the remains of a castle on the hill, and the shelter at Abric d'Ermites V lies about four and a half kilometres from it, on the slopes of the Serra de Godall, where a hermitage stands among the pines. The paintings in the Abrics de l'Ermita belong to the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain. Neighbouring sites are known as Valmayor and La Fenellosa, and they appear on the same rides.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites V write-up.
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Abric d'Ermites V 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.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
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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.
Read the complete Roca dels moros write-up.
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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.
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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 V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites V write-up.
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Abric d'Ermites V closes the day.
Abric d'Ermites V → 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 V is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.