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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272 km from Bordón to Bordón, about 5 h 14 of riding. It goes by way of Coveta de la Cornisa, Abric del mas dels Ous, Cova dels Cavalls and back through Abric del mas dels Ous. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Castellote is a hill town in the Maestrazgo, the high, dry and wonderfully empty country of southern Aragon, and the shelter of La Vacada lies among the limestone gorges nearby. The name suggests a place where cattle were gathered. The area has some of the finest Levantine rock art in Teruel, and the figures here are part of the Mediterranean-arc ensemble UNESCO recognised in 1998: slender red archers, deer and sometimes a hunting scene, painted on the walls of shallow caves. The rock is pale and the cliffs are cut by the river Guadalope, which carves a sequence of narrow canyons through the plateau.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Vacada write-up.
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Abrigo de la Vacada is where the day begins. Next is Coveta de la Cornisa.
Morella is one of the most dramatic towns in Spain: a walled medieval city wrapped around a conical hill, with a castle on the summit and its walls running unbroken around the base. It stands in the mountains of the Ports in the north of Castellón province, at around a thousand metres, and its silhouette, seen from the roads that climb toward it, is unforgettable. The Coveta de la Cornisa, the little cave of the ledge, lies in the hills about four kilometres away.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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Coveta de la Cornisa comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del mas dels Ous.
Xert is the kind of village you pass through on the way to somewhere else and then wonder why you did not stop. It lies in the Baix Maestrat in northern Castellón, below a ridge of bare limestone, with the old village climbing the slope and a newer part down by the road. The shelter called the Abric del Mas dels Ous, the shelter of the farmhouse of the eggs, is out in the dry hills nearby, between Xert, Canet lo Roig and Rosell.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas dels Ous. Next is Cova dels Cavalls.
A line of archers closing in on a herd of deer, one animal already wounded and fleeing: the hunting scene in the Cova dels Cavalls is one of the most reproduced images of Spanish prehistoric art, and it sits in the Barranc de la Valltorta, a dry limestone gorge in the Castellón hinterland between Albocàsser and Tírig. The Valltorta shelters, together with nearby Gasulla, form one of the key groups of Levantine rock art, and the Museu de la Valltorta near Tírig runs guided visits to the main shelter and explains the paintings with replicas and finds. Check visiting times at the museum before you set off, because the shelter is only seen with a guide.
Read the complete Cova dels Cavalls write-up.
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Cova dels Cavalls, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas dels Ous.
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Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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back through Abric del mas dels Ous sits at 121 km, about halfway. Next is back through Coveta de la Cornisa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Coveta de la Cornisa comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Vacada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Vacada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la Vacada closes the day.
Abrigo de la Vacada → Coveta de la Cornisa is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → Abric del mas dels Ous is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → Cova dels Cavalls is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Cavalls → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → back through Coveta de la Cornisa is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta de la Cornisa → Abrigo de la Vacada is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.