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 448 km round trip from Alcaine - roughly 8 h 46 in the saddle. It goes by way of Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, Prop de la Cova Pintada and back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Río Martín country of Teruel is a place of deep gorges and bare, honey-coloured hills, and Oliete and Estercuel are two of its tiny villages. The Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is a small shelter in a side ravine, named for the fig tree that grows at its mouth, and it holds paintings that belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, as protected by UNESCO. The pictures include the small red figures of the Levantine tradition, and the setting, under an overhang of golden rock, is a good place to sit and think about how few things have changed in the landscape.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
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Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is where the day begins. Next is Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
Els Ports is the high, empty country in the north of Castellón province, a land of stone-walled terraces, deep gorges, juniper and pine, and villages that cling to ridges above the river valleys. Palanques is one of the smallest of them, and above it, in a long cliff band known as the Cingle de Palanques, are shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Levantine paintings here show human figures and animals in the expressive style typical of this coast's mountainous interior, and like most such sites, they are protected and usually visited with a local guide.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
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Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A comes up about 96 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 219 km into the recorded legs you reach Prop de la Cova Pintada. Next is back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 123 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 133 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.