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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From Albocàsser it runs 433 km to Albocàsser; allow about 9 h 56 of riding. The stops in between: Prop de la Cova Pintada, Abrigo del Plano del Pulido and back through Prop de la Cova Pintada. 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 Prop de la Cova Pintada.
The Ports massif rises abruptly at the meeting point of Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia, a tangle of limestone peaks, deep gorges and pine forest that feels surprisingly wild given how close it is to the Ebro delta and the coast. Prop de la Cova Pintada, meaning near the painted cave, sits on its southern side, between Mas de Barberans, Valderrobres and the old city of Tortosa.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 87 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Plano del Pulido.
South of Caspe, the lower Aragón country is a dry, sculpted landscape of ochre hills, flat-topped mesas and gullies cut into soft sandstone, with almond and olive groves clinging to the valley floors. In these sandstone outcrops, prehistoric people found shelter and left paintings, and the Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is one of the rock shelters of the area included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The painted figures, in the reddish tones of Levantine art, are small and faded, and as at most of these sites, access is controlled and visits may need to be arranged in advance.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
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about 221 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Plano del Pulido. Next is back through Prop de la Cova Pintada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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back through Prop de la Cova Pintada, late in the day. 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.
Back at Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera. That is the ride.
Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is 134 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Plano del Pulido → back through Prop de la Cova Pintada is 116 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada → Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.