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 161 km round trip from Bordón - roughly 3 h 06 in the saddle. 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 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del Arquero 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 52 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.
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about 82 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 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.
Back at Abrigo del Arquero. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Arquero → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Coveta de la Cornisa is 30 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 del Arquero is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.