CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 416 km round trip from Villafranca del Cid - roughly 8 h 31 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abric de la Tenalla, Val del Charco del Agua Amarga and back through Abric de la Tenalla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Maestrat is the old Valencian highland, a country of bare limestone, stone-walled fields and farmhouses called masos, and the name of this shelter refers to one of them: the mas of the mill at the cave. It is a very long way from the beaches that most people associate with Castellón. The shelter lies a few kilometres from Villafranca del Cid, known in Valencian as Vilafranca, which sits at roughly a thousand metres on a plateau where the winters are cold and the summers are mercifully fresh.
Read the complete Abric del mas del moli de la Cova write-up.
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Abric del mas del moli de la Cova is where the day begins. Next is Abric de la Tenalla.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the wildest corners of the Valencian region, a cluster of tiny villages in the mountains where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet, and the Abric de la Tenalla lies on its southeastern edge, near Rosell. It is one of the many rock shelters in this area with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the nearby Serra de Godall and the Ulldecona shelters to the east are among the most important sites in Catalonia. The landscape is dramatic: limestone cliffs, deep gorges, pine and holm oak forests, and abandoned terraces where shepherds once grazed their flocks.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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Abric de la Tenalla comes up 64 km in. Next is Val del Charco del Agua Amarga.
Around ten kilometres from Alcañiz, in a dry ravine among olive groves and limestone ledges, a rock shelter holds one of the most celebrated scenes of Levantine rock art in Spain. The paintings at Val del Charco del Agua Amarga show archers in motion, hunting and perhaps fighting, their thin bodies drawn with a few confident strokes in red. Many experts consider it one of the finest examples in the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art, and seeing it, even protected behind a fence, gives a real jolt of connection to people who lived here several thousand years ago.
Read the complete Val del Charco del Agua Amarga write-up.
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128 km in you reach Val del Charco del Agua Amarga. Next is back through Abric de la Tenalla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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back through Abric de la Tenalla, late in the day. Next is Abric del mas del moli de la Cova.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas del moli de la Cova write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric del mas del moli de la Cova. That is the ride.
Abric del mas del moli de la Cova → Abric de la Tenalla is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric de la Tenalla → Val del Charco del Agua Amarga is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Val del Charco del Agua Amarga → back through Abric de la Tenalla is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Tenalla → Abric del mas del moli de la Cova is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.