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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256 km from Ulldecona to Ulldecona, about 5 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin, Abric de la Bonansa, Abric del.mas Blanc and back through Abric de la Bonansa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Montsià range rises abruptly from the coastal plain at the southern tip of Catalonia, a long, rocky ridge of limestone that separates the Ebro delta from the inland valleys. Around its foot lie the villages of Santa Bàrbara, Masdenverge and Ulldecona, surrounded by olive groves, some of them with ancient trees hundreds of years old, their trunks twisted into extraordinary shapes. The Abric de les Llibreres is one of the prehistoric rock shelters in this area, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
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Abric de les Llibreres is where the day begins. Next is Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the emptiest corners of the Valencian Community, a group of tiny stone villages scattered across rugged limestone mountains in the far north of Castellón, right where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragón meet. The Cova dels Rossegadors, also called the Cova del Polvorí, lies on the edge of this country near Rossell, with Mas de Barberans and Canet lo Roig the other nearby villages.
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Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la Bonansa.
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.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Bonansa. Next is Abric del.mas Blanc, 29 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, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de la Bonansa.
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Read the complete Abric de la Bonansa write-up.
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back through Abric de la Bonansa sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin comes up about 210 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de les Llibreres.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les Llibreres write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de les Llibreres closes the day.
Abric de les Llibreres → Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Abric de la Bonansa is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Bonansa → Abric del.mas Blanc is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del.mas Blanc → back through Abric de la Bonansa is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Bonansa → back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Abric de les Llibreres is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.