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 Chert/Xert it runs 458 km to Chert/Xert; allow about 8 h 38 of riding. It goes by way of Cova de Gargán, Abric mas de los Perez and back through Cova de Gargán. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Bonansa means fair weather, a calm sea or that lull after a storm, and it is a rather hopeful name to give a shelter in a land of wind and drought. The place lies on the high ground of the Baix Maestrat, a few kilometres from the village of Xert, known in Spanish as Chert, where the olive terraces start to climb toward the dry mountains of the interior. The shelter is one of the painted places of the Levantine rock art tradition, red figures on limestone that the UNESCO list of 1998 brought to wider notice.
Read the complete Abric de la Bonansa write-up.
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Abric de la Bonansa is where the day begins. Next is Cova de Gargán.
High in the interior of Castellón, where the coastal orange groves are long forgotten and the land climbs toward the Penyagolosa massif, the shelter known as Cova de Gargán sits in a country of limestone ledges, holm oak and dry-stone terraces. Vistabella del Maestrazgo is the nearest village, a handful of kilometres away on its high plateau, with Villahermosa del Río down in its valley to the other side and Lucena del Cid a little further south. It is quiet up here in a way that the coast never is.
Read the complete Cova de Gargán write-up.
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Cova de Gargán comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric mas de los Perez.
Between the Turia and the Palancia rivers, northwest of Valencia, the land rises into a maze of limestone mountains, pine forest and small villages that rarely see foreign visitors. The Abric del Mas de los Pérez is a rock shelter in the hills near Andilla, Viver and Alcublas, one of hundreds of painted sites in eastern Spain listed by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. These shelters were decorated by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago, and while some feature vivid hunting scenes, many are faint and hard to see without a trained eye. Respect any fences and signs, and never wet or touch the rock.
Read the complete Abric mas de los Perez write-up.
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about 228 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric mas de los Perez. Next is back through Cova de Gargán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de Gargán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova de Gargán, late in the day. Next is Abric de la Bonansa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Bonansa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric de la Bonansa. That is the ride.
Abric de la Bonansa → Cova de Gargán is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de Gargán → Abric mas de los Perez is 150 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric mas de los Perez → back through Cova de Gargán is 150 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cova de Gargán → Abric de la Bonansa is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.