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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383 km from Ulldecona to Ulldecona, about 9 h 15 of riding. It goes by way of Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin, Prop de la Cova Pintada, Roca dels moros and back through Prop de la Cova Pintada. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ulldecona stands where the foothills of the Ports de Tortosa-Beseit slope toward the plain of the Ebro, in the south of Catalonia, and it is a town of about six thousand people with olive groves in every direction. The Serra de Godall rises behind, and under its cliffs, the shelters known as the Abrics de l'Ermita, near the hermitage of La Pietat, hold prehistoric paintings, with a small visitor centre that makes it one of the easier places to see this art. Esquarterades is another shelter in the same tradition, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Abric d'Esquarterades II write-up.
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Abric d'Esquarterades II 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 30 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.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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about 103 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.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin comes up about 342 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric d'Esquarterades II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric d'Esquarterades II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric d'Esquarterades II closes the day.
Abric d'Esquarterades II → Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 30 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'Esquarterades II is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.