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 Sacañet it runs 458 km to Sacañet; allow about 8 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Cova de Gargán, Abric mas de la Roca and back through Cova de Gargán. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Between the Turia and the Palancia rivers, northwest of Valencia, the land rises into a maze of limestone mountains, pine forest and small villages that rarely see foreign visitors. The Abric del Mas de los Pérez is a rock shelter in the hills near Andilla, Viver and Alcublas, one of hundreds of painted sites in eastern Spain listed by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. These shelters were decorated by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago, and while some feature vivid hunting scenes, many are faint and hard to see without a trained eye. Respect any fences and signs, and never wet or touch the rock.
Read the complete Abric mas de los Perez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric mas de los Perez is where the day begins. 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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Cova de Gargán comes up about 150 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric mas de la Roca.
Northern Castellón is a hard, empty, beautiful part of Valencian Spain, a country of limestone ridges and terraced slopes some thirty kilometres back from the Mediterranean, and the Abric Mas de la Roca belongs to it, about six kilometres from the village of Xert, whose name is spelled Chert in Catalan and Valencian. Xert has fewer than a thousand people, Canet lo Roig and Catí are similar, and everything here is small and old.
Read the complete Abric mas de la Roca write-up.
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about 229 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric mas de la Roca. Next is back through Cova de Gargán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de Gargán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova de Gargán, late in the day. Next is Abric mas de los Perez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric mas de los Perez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric mas de los Perez. That is the ride.
Abric mas de los Perez → Cova de Gargán is 150 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cova de Gargán → Abric mas de la Roca is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric mas de la Roca → back through Cova de Gargán is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova de Gargán → Abric mas de los Perez is 150 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.