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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287 km from Bordón to Bordón, about 5 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of Coveta de la Cornisa, Abric del mas dels Ous, Calçaes del matá 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Castellote is a small, grey village in the Maestrazgo, the high, dry upland of eastern Teruel, built round a ruined castle that once belonged to the Templars. The Abrigo del Arquero, the Archer's Shelter, is one of the rock shelters in the cliffs of the area, with painted figures in the Levantine style, including archers, from which it takes its name. It belongs to the Mediterranean Basin rock art group that UNESCO listed in 1998. The shelter lies in the hills several kilometres from Castellote, and the walk in takes some effort.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arquero write-up.
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Abrigo del Arquero 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 78 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 120 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas dels Ous. Next is Calçaes del matá.
Ares del Maestrat sits on a crag so steep that the village seems glued to the rock, and below it, in the Gasulla gorge, the Cingle de la Mola Remigia holds some of the most famous Levantine paintings in Spain, scenes of archers, hunters and even an execution. Calçaes del Matà is a shelter in the same broad landscape near Albocàsser, and with the Gasulla and Valltorta sites it belongs to the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The shelters here are reached on foot, and guided visits can be booked through the local museums.
Read the complete Calçaes del matá write-up.
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Calçaes del matá, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas dels Ous.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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back through Abric del mas dels Ous sits at 123 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 204 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Arquero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arquero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del Arquero closes the day.
Abrigo del Arquero → Coveta de la Cornisa is 78 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 → Calçaes del matá is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Calçaes del matá → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 23 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 del Arquero is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.