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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A 345 km round trip from Mosqueruela - roughly 7 h 45 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cova de Gargán, Racó de Nando, Centelles- Abric I and back through Racó de Nando. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Racó de Nando.
Racó means corner in Valencian, and this really is a corner: a fold in the limestone hills between Benassal, Culla and Vilafranca, in the interior of Castellón where the coast's crowds feel a continent away. The rock shelter here is one of the many small sites of Levantine prehistoric painting that together make up a UNESCO World Heritage listing, and like most of them it is modest, fenced and best seen with a local guide. What lingers is less the painting than the idea of hunters choosing this exact overhang, with water close by and a view down the valley, and leaving their mark on it.
Read the complete Racó de Nando write-up.
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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Racó de Nando. 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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Centelles- Abric I, about halfway. Next is back through Racó de Nando.
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Read the complete Racó de Nando write-up.
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back through Racó de Nando sits at 103 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.
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back through Cova de Gargán comes up about 255 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 → Racó de Nando is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó de Nando → Centelles- Abric I is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric I → back through Racó de Nando is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racó de Nando → back through Cova de Gargán is 53 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.