CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Vilaplana it runs 198 km to Vilaplana; allow about 3 h of riding. On the way it passes The, Triumphal Arch of Berá, Abric de Can Castellvi and back through Triumphal Arch of Berá. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Climb out of Reus on a clear morning and the Serra de la Mussara rises ahead like a wall, a limestone escarpment that holds up the edge of the Prades plateau and drops steeply to the plain of the Camp de Tarragona. The rock shelters along this cliff line, close to the village of Vilaplana, are part of the prehistoric painted landscape of eastern Spain. The best reason to stop, though, is the view: on a good day you look straight down over hazelnut orchards and olive groves to Reus, Tarragona and the sea.
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Abric de la Serra de la mussara is where the day begins. Next is The.
Inside a plain-looking farmhouse building is a domed hall from the fourth century, its cupola covered in mosaics of hunting scenes, biblical stories and figures that may represent the imperial family. Some scholars believe it was built as a mausoleum for Constans, son of Constantine the Great, who was killed in 350; others are not so sure, and the debate is part of the fun. The site belongs to the UNESCO listing for the Roman town of Tarraco.
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The comes up 29 km in. Next is Triumphal Arch of Berá.
For centuries traffic on the main coastal road of Catalonia drove straight through a Roman triumphal arch. The Arc de Berà stands on the line of the Via Augusta, the great Roman road from the Pyrenees to Cádiz, about twenty kilometres northeast of Tarragona, and until the road was diverted around it in the late twentieth century, cars and trucks passed under its single span. It was built at the end of the first century BC, and an inscription records that it was erected according to the will of Lucius Licinius Sura, a figure whose identity historians still discuss. It is part of the UNESCO listing for the Roman remains of Tarraco.
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58 km in you reach Triumphal Arch of Berá. Next is Abric de Can Castellvi.
The Penedès is wine country, and the landscape around Vilafranca del Penedès is a patchwork of vineyards rolling away toward the Montserrat massif in the north and the limestone hills of the Garraf in the south. Abric de Can Castellví is a small rock shelter in this landscape, one of the many sites of Levantine and schematic rock art scattered across Catalonia and included in the UNESCO serial site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like many such sites, it is modest in appearance, a hollow in the rock where faint painted figures have survived thousands of years, and access is often limited to protect the art.
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Abric de Can Castellvi, about halfway. Next is back through Triumphal Arch of Berá.
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back through Triumphal Arch of Berá sits at 116 km, about halfway. Next is back through The.
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back through The comes up 145 km in. Next is Abric de la Serra de la mussara.
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Abric de la Serra de la mussara closes the day.
Abric de la Serra de la mussara → The is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The → Triumphal Arch of Berá is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Triumphal Arch of Berá → Abric de Can Castellvi is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Can Castellví → back through Triumphal Arch of Berá is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Triumphal Arch of Berá → back through The is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The → Abric de la Serra de la mussara is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.