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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276 km from Bordón to Bordón, about 5 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, Coveta de la Cornisa, Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B and Galeria alta de la masia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Maestrazgo and the Bajo Aragón are among the emptiest parts of Spain, a country of limestone ridges, deep river gorges and villages that look as if they were poured into the hillside. Castellote, Molinos and Mas de las Matas are small stone towns in the Teruel province, with Romanesque and Gothic churches, narrow streets and houses with wooden balconies, set between the Guadalope river and the high ground of the Maestrazgo. The population is small and has been falling for decades, which means traffic is light and the landscape is close to how it has been for centuries.
Read the complete Abrigo del Torico del Pudial write-up.
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Abrigo del Torico del Pudial 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 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Coveta de la Cornisa. Next is Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B.
Morella is one of the great walled towns of eastern Spain, a stack of grey stone houses wound round a conical hill in the high country where Castellón meets Teruel, and the whole thing is crowned by a castle that looks like it was carved from the summit. The medieval walls run for more than two kilometres, the main street is lined with arcades, and a Gothic basilica dedicated to Santa María holds a remarkable choir in the middle of the nave. Every six years the town holds a festival called the Sexenni, with processions and dancing in honour of the Virgin of Vallivana. Outside the festival years, the place keeps a quiet, mountain dignity, and the cheese, truffles and lamb are all good.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B write-up.
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Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B, about halfway. 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 sits at 79 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B write-up.
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back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B comes up about 165 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Coveta de la Cornisa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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about 195 km into the recorded legs you reach back through 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.
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back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Torico del Pudial.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Torico del Pudial write-up.
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The route ends here after 276 km.
Abrigo del Torico del Pudial → 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 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B → Galeria alta de la masia is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Galeria alta de la masia → back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo B → back through Coveta de la Cornisa is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 Torico del Pudial is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.