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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From Mosqueruela it runs 344 km to Mosqueruela; allow about 7 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of Cova de Gargán, La Covassa del molinell, Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera and back through La Covassa del molinell. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Maestrazgo is a name that should be said slowly, because it covers a huge and rugged region in the borderlands of Teruel and Castellón, and Mosqueruela lies in its heart. The village is among the highest in the province, well over a thousand metres up, in a country of pine forest, stone farmhouses and wide grassy valleys. The Barranco de Gibert, a ravine nearby, holds painted shelters with Levantine art, and one of the numbered sites is the subject here. It is part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean basin, and one of the highest and most remote of its kind.
Read the complete Barranco de Gibert I write-up.
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Barranco de Gibert I is where the day begins. Next is Cova de Gargán.
High in the interior of Castellón, where the coastal orange groves are long forgotten and the land climbs toward the Penyagolosa massif, the shelter known as Cova de Gargán sits in a country of limestone ledges, holm oak and dry-stone terraces. Vistabella del Maestrazgo is the nearest village, a handful of kilometres away on its high plateau, with Villahermosa del Río down in its valley to the other side and Lucena del Cid a little further south. It is quiet up here in a way that the coast never is.
Read the complete Cova de Gargán write-up.
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Cova de Gargán comes up about 90 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Covassa del molinell.
Benassal and Culla are mountain villages in the Alt Maestrat, in the interior of the province of Castelló, a region of limestone plateaus, deep gorges and stone walls that feels a world away from the beaches of the coast. La Covassa del Molinell, a large rock shelter near Benassal, is one of many in the Maestrat with prehistoric paintings. The region is one of the richest areas for Levantine rock art, with the famous shelters of the Valltorta gorge, near Tírig, just to the east.
Read the complete La Covassa del molinell write-up.
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about 130 km into the recorded legs you reach La Covassa del molinell. Next is Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera.
The Maestrat is a quiet corner of Castellón, a country of dry-stone walls, almond groves and villages built on knolls, and the ravines that cut through it hide shelters painted with scenes from the Mesolithic and Neolithic. The Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera belongs to the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, a tradition inscribed by UNESCO in 1998, and it lies in the hills above Albocàsser, near the little towns of Catí and Les Coves de Vinromà. The best-known cluster, the Valltorta gorge, lies not far away, with a museum at Tírig that explains the art and gives access to some sites.
Read the complete Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera write-up.
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Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera, about halfway. Next is back through La Covassa del molinell.
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Read the complete La Covassa del molinell write-up.
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back through La Covassa del molinell sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova de Gargán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de Gargán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova de Gargán comes up about 254 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco de Gibert I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco de Gibert I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranco de Gibert I closes the day.
Barranco de Gibert I → Cova de Gargán is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de Gargán → La Covassa del molinell is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Covassa del molinell → Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera → back through La Covassa del molinell is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Covassa del molinell → back through Cova de Gargán is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova de Gargán → Barranco de Gibert I is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.