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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352 km from Benassal to Benassal, about 6 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, Abrigo de los Trepadores and back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Benassal sits on a high shelf of the Alt Maestrat, over seven hundred metres up, and the cool, clear air has long made it a summer retreat from the coastal heat. The town has a spa tradition, with springs whose water is bottled and sold across the region, and a medieval centre of stone arcades and Gothic doorways that can stand a slow walk. The Abric de les Dogues, about two and a half kilometres away, is one of the painted shelters scattered through these hills, with Levantine art that UNESCO lists among the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Abric de les Dogues is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
Castellote is one of those villages in the Teruel Maestrazgo that seems to have been built by people who wanted to be left alone. Its houses pile up beneath a great rock wall topped by the ruins of a castle associated with the Knights Templar, and the Guadalope river winds below on its way into the Santolea reservoir. The Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, a painted rock shelter in a deep ravine outside the village, is part of the extensive collection of Levantine rock art scattered through these mountains, with small figures in red ochre that have survived on the stone for millennia.
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Abrigo del Barranco Hondo comes up about 97 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de los Trepadores.
The Río Martín runs through the dry hills of Teruel province in northern Spain, and the villages along its banks, Alacón, Oliete and Muniesa among them, are tiny places that seem to belong to a calmer century. The Abrigo de los Trepadores is one of the rock shelters of the area, part of a cultural park that protects the paintings found in the cliffs and gorges of the valley. Many belong to the Levantine tradition, small red figures of hunters and animals, and others are schematic, simple signs and stick-like human forms, painted by later peoples. The paintings can be hard to find without a guide, and access is regulated, so plan ahead.
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about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de los Trepadores. Next is back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
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Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, late in the day. Next is Abric de les Dogues.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les Dogues write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric de les Dogues. That is the ride.
Abric de les Dogues → Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → Abrigo de los Trepadores is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Trepadores → back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → Abric de les Dogues is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.