CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Ares del Maestre it runs 127 km to Ares del Maestre; allow about 3 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Roca del Senallo, Cova de Gargán and back through Roca del Senallo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Roca del Senallo.
The Maestrat of inland Castellón is a highland of stone: stone villages on hilltops, stone walls running for kilometres across the slopes, stone farmhouses called masos scattered over the plateau. Roca del Senallo is a rock shelter near Culla, Vilafranca and Benassal, one of many painted shelters in this region, and it belongs to the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Maestrat is one of the richest areas for Levantine art, with famous sites in the Valltorta gorge and around Ares and Albocàsser.
Read the complete Roca del Senallo write-up.
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Roca del Senallo comes up 20 km in. Next is Cova de Gargán.
High in the interior of Castellón, where the coastal orange groves are long forgotten and the land climbs toward the Penyagolosa massif, the shelter known as Cova de Gargán sits in a country of limestone ledges, holm oak and dry-stone terraces. Vistabella del Maestrazgo is the nearest village, a handful of kilometres away on its high plateau, with Villahermosa del Río down in its valley to the other side and Lucena del Cid a little further south. It is quiet up here in a way that the coast never is.
Read the complete Cova de Gargán write-up.
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41 km in you reach Cova de Gargán. Next is back through Roca del Senallo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roca del Senallo write-up.
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back through Roca del Senallo, late in the day. Next is Abric del.mas Blanc, 20 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric del.mas Blanc. That is the ride.
Abric del.mas Blanc → Roca del Senallo is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roca del Senallo → Cova de Gargán is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de Gargán → back through Roca del Senallo is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roca del Senallo → Abric del.mas Blanc is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.