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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A 330 km round trip from Chert/Xert - roughly 6 h 12 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abric del.mas Blanc, Barranco de Gibert II, Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d and back through Barranco de Gibert II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Abric del.mas Blanc, 33 km on.
Benassal is a stone village on a high plateau in the Alt Maestrat, in the interior of Castellón, at around eight hundred metres above sea level, and it is known throughout the region for its spring water, the Font d'en Segures, which is bottled and sold across Spain. The Abric del Mas Blanc, the shelter of the white farmhouse, is one of the many rock-art sites in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art. The nearby Valltorta gorge, about twenty kilometres to the east, has some of the most famous Levantine paintings, including dramatic hunting scenes, and the Valltorta museum in Tírig is the best place to learn about them.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
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Abric del.mas Blanc comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco de Gibert II.
Up on the roof of the Maestrazgo, where Teruel and Castellón meet, the land rises above fourteen hundred metres into a bleak, beautiful plateau of pasture, pine and limestone. Mosqueruela, on the Aragonese side, is one of the highest villages in the area, and Vilafranca, on the Valencian side, sits in a valley below. The Barranco de Gibert cuts into the hills between them, close also to La Iglesuela del Cid, and its second shelter holds prehistoric paintings.
Read the complete Barranco de Gibert II write-up.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco de Gibert II. Next is Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d.
The Guadalope river cuts a deep canyon through the limestone of the Maestrazgo in eastern Teruel, and the Abrigo del Arenal de la Fonseca lies in this wild country near the hamlet of Ladruñán, between the villages of Castellote and Cantavieja. It is one of the important rock-art shelters of Aragon, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art, with Levantine paintings of animals and human figures in red pigment on the rock. The setting is spectacular: a narrow gorge with towering cliffs, the river flowing below, and pine and holm oak clinging to the slopes. Access involves a walk, and the paintings are protected by a fence.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d write-up.
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Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d, about halfway. Next is back through Barranco de Gibert II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco de Gibert II write-up.
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back through Barranco de Gibert II sits at 131 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del.mas Blanc, 32 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del.mas Blanc comes up about 290 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Abric de la Bonansa closes the day.
Abric de la Bonansa → Abric del.mas Blanc is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del.mas Blanc → Barranco de Gibert II is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco de Gibert II → Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d → back through Barranco de Gibert II is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco de Gibert II → back through Abric del.mas Blanc is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del.mas Blanc → Abric de la Bonansa is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.