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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344 km from Caspe to Caspe, about 8 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Valmayor V, Abric del.mas Blanc and back through Valmayor V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
South of Caspe, the lower Aragón country is a dry, sculpted landscape of ochre hills, flat-topped mesas and gullies cut into soft sandstone, with almond and olive groves clinging to the valley floors. In these sandstone outcrops, prehistoric people found shelter and left paintings, and the Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is one of the rock shelters of the area included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The painted figures, in the reddish tones of Levantine art, are small and faded, and as at most of these sites, access is controlled and visits may need to be arranged in advance.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
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Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is where the day begins. Next is Valmayor V.
The Matarraña, in the far east of Teruel province, is often called the Tuscany of Aragon, and for once the comparison holds. Stone villages crown hilltops above olive groves and vineyards, rivers run clear through limestone gorges, and the light in the evening is honey-coloured. Valmayor is a ravine in the hills here, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and the Catalan border, and its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. As elsewhere, they are protected, and visits are best arranged through local tourist offices.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
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Valmayor V comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del.mas Blanc, 61 km on.
Benassal is a stone village on a high plateau in the Alt Maestrat, in the interior of Castellón, at around eight hundred metres above sea level, and it is known throughout the region for its spring water, the Font d'en Segures, which is bottled and sold across Spain. The Abric del Mas Blanc, the shelter of the white farmhouse, is one of the many rock-art sites in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art. The nearby Valltorta gorge, about twenty kilometres to the east, has some of the most famous Levantine paintings, including dramatic hunting scenes, and the Valltorta museum in Tírig is the best place to learn about them.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del.mas Blanc. Next is back through Valmayor V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Valmayor V, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Plano del Pulido.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Plano del Pulido. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Plano del Pulido → Valmayor V is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valmayor V → Abric del.mas Blanc is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del.mas Blanc → back through Valmayor V is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Valmayor V → Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.