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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319 km from Artesa de Segre to Artesa de Segre, about 4 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Roques Guàrdies II, Bco. de Campells II and back through Roques Guàrdies II. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the Pre-Pyrenees of Lleida, the plain of Urgell ends and the land starts folding into dry, golden hills. Artesa de Segre, Camarasa and Cubells are small places along the edge of this country, where the Segre river and the Noguera Pallaresa bring water down from the mountains, and where reservoirs and gorges give the landscape its character. The Camarasa dam, built in the early twentieth century on the Noguera Pallaresa, is a big wall of concrete holding back a long, green-blue lake in a narrow valley.
Read the complete Antona I write-up.
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Antona I is where the day begins. Next is Roques Guàrdies II.
Les Garrigues is the dry, stony corner of western Catalonia, south-east of Lleida, a land of low hills, terraced olive groves, almond trees and stone huts, where the light is hard and the summers are hot. Roques Guàrdies II is a rock shelter in these hills near Juneda and Arbeca, with traces of prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage site of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Roques Guàrdies II write-up.
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Roques Guàrdies II comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bco. de Campells II, 62 km on.
Mequinenza has a double life. There is the town you can ride into today, a quiet place on a hillside above a vast stretch of water, and there is the town that lies underneath that water, the old Mequinenza, which was flooded when the reservoir was filled in the 1960s and whose people were moved up the hill. The writer Jesús Moncada grew up in the old town and made it the subject of his novels in Catalan, so if you want one book to read before coming here, that is the one to look for. The Bco. de Campells is a dry ravine two and a half kilometres out, with a small rock shelter holding prehistoric paintings.
Read the complete Bco. de Campells II write-up.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Bco. de Campells II. Next is back through Roques Guàrdies II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roques Guàrdies II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Roques Guàrdies II, late in the day. Next is Antona I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Antona I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Antona I. That is the ride.
Antona I → Roques Guàrdies II is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roques Guàrdies II → Bco. de Campells II is 93 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bco. de Campells II → back through Roques Guàrdies II is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roques Guàrdies II → Antona I is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.