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 94 km round trip from Chert/Xert - roughly 2 h 02 in the saddle. The stops in between: Racó d'en Gil, Els Covarxos and back through Racó d'en Gil. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Racó d'en Gil.
There is a small triangle of country in the Alt Maestrat, between Benassal, Catí and Albocàsser, where the hills fold into narrow ravines and the stone walls of old terraces climb every slope. Racó d'en Gil, a name meaning something like Gil's corner, lies in this landscape, and it sits within easy reach of the Valltorta gorge, the place that put Levantine rock art on the map.
Read the complete Racó d'en Gil write-up.
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Racó d'en Gil comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Els Covarxos.
Culla stands on a hilltop in the interior of Castellón, a medieval village of stone houses and narrow lanes wrapped around the remains of a castle. In the thirteenth century, after the Christian conquest, the area was granted to the Knights Templar, and later to the Order of Montesa, which explains the old walls and the sense of a place built for defence. Below the village, among the ravines and terraces, the rock shelter of Els Covarxos holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like many such shelters, it is protected and not easy to find on your own; enquire locally before setting off on foot.
Read the complete Els Covarxos write-up.
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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Els Covarxos. Next is back through Racó d'en Gil.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó d'en Gil write-up.
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back through Racó d'en Gil, 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 → Racó d'en Gil is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó d'en Gil → Els Covarxos is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Els Covarxos → back through Racó d'en Gil is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racó d'en Gil → Abric de la Bonansa is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.