CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 427 km round trip from Castellote - roughly 8 h 28 in the saddle. On the way it passes Coveta de la Cornisa, Centelles- Abric I, Galeria alta de la masia and Centelles- Abric II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Castellote is one of those villages in the Teruel Maestrazgo that seems to have been built by people who wanted to be left alone. Its houses pile up beneath a great rock wall topped by the ruins of a castle associated with the Knights Templar, and the Guadalope river winds below on its way into the Santolea reservoir. The Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, a painted rock shelter in a deep ravine outside the village, is part of the extensive collection of Levantine rock art scattered through these mountains, with small figures in red ochre that have survived on the stone for millennia.
Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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Abrigo del Barranco Hondo 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 35 km in. Next is Centelles- Abric I.
Albocàsser and Catí are two quiet stone towns in the inland hills of Castellón, and between them, in a rocky ravine, the Centelles shelters hold some of the prehistoric paintings that make this corner of Spain a capital of Levantine rock art. The style is distinctive: small human figures, often archers, painted in red with long legs and dynamic poses, hunting deer, ibex and boar, sometimes in groups, sometimes in battle. The sites are part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Valltorta gorge, near Tírig, holds some of the most famous examples, and its museum explains the art and the people who made it.
Read the complete Centelles- Abric I write-up.
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70 km in you reach Centelles- Abric I. Next is Galeria alta de la masia.
Morella is one of those hill towns that makes you pull over for a photograph before you even know what it is. Its castle crowns a steep crag, its walls run down the slope in a ragged line, and the old streets climb in a spiral to the top. It stands at around a thousand metres in the Els Ports highlands in northern Castellón, near the borders of Aragon and Catalonia, and the surrounding country is wide, cold, windswept and dotted with stone farmhouses. The rock shelters nearby preserve some of the most famous painted scenes of Levantine rock art, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Galeria alta de la masia write-up.
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Galeria alta de la masia, about halfway. Next is Centelles- Abric II.
Three or four shelters bear the name Centelles, and on a map they all collapse into one dot, which says something about how these places are catalogued: by the ravine, the farm and the order in which a surveyor stumbled across them. The Centelles of this ride lies in the upland country between Catí and Albocàsser, where the Maestrat plateau is broad, quiet and dry, and where the main event of the day is the sheep crossing the road.
Read the complete Centelles- Abric II write-up.
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Centelles- Abric II sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Galeria alta de la masia.
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Read the complete Galeria alta de la masia write-up.
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back through Galeria alta de la masia comes up 175 km in. Next is back through Centelles- Abric I.
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Read the complete Centelles- Abric I write-up.
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210 km in you reach back through Centelles- Abric I. Next is back through Coveta de la Cornisa.
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Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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back through Coveta de la Cornisa, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
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Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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The route ends here after 427 km.
Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → Coveta de la Cornisa is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → Centelles- Abric I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric I → Galeria alta de la masia is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Galeria alta de la masia → Centelles- Abric II is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric II → back through Galeria alta de la masia is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Galeria alta de la masia → back through Centelles- Abric I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Centelles- Abric I → back through Coveta de la Cornisa is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta de la Cornisa → Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.