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 321 km round trip from Albocàsser - roughly 6 h 01 in the saddle. The stops in between: Racó molero, 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.
The Maestrat is a quiet corner of Castellón, a country of dry-stone walls, almond groves and villages built on knolls, and the ravines that cut through it hide shelters painted with scenes from the Mesolithic and Neolithic. The Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera belongs to the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, a tradition inscribed by UNESCO in 1998, and it lies in the hills above Albocàsser, near the little towns of Catí and Les Coves de Vinromà. The best-known cluster, the Valltorta gorge, lies not far away, with a museum at Tírig that explains the art and gives access to some sites.
Read the complete Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera write-up.
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Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera is where the day begins. Next is Racó molero.
Truffles grow under the oaks of the Maestrat. The black truffle, Tuber melanosporum, favours the cool, limestone soils of the high plateaus of Castellón, Teruel and Tarragona, and in recent decades farmers have planted oak plantations to cultivate it, hoping for a crop that sells for a high price in winter. Dogs are trained to find it, . The Racó Molero, a ravine corner four or five kilometres from Benassal, is in the oak country, and the woods around it hold a mixture of holm oak, pine and juniper.
Read the complete Racó molero write-up.
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Racó molero comes up about 36 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 74 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 128 km, about halfway. Next is back through Racó molero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó molero write-up.
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back through Racó molero comes up about 285 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera closes the day.
Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera → Racó molero is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó molero → Barranco de Gibert II is 38 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 Racó molero is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racó molero → Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.