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 Bordón it runs 149 km to Bordón; allow about 2 h 42 of riding. It goes by way of Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, Coveta de la Cornisa and back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la Vacada 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Coveta de la Cornisa. 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 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.
Back at Abrigo de la Vacada. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Vacada → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Coveta de la Cornisa is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Abrigo de la Vacada is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.