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 348 km round trip from Mosqueruela - roughly 5 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric del mas dels Ous, Cueva de mas del Abogat and back through Abric del mas dels Ous. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranco de Gibert I is where the day begins. Next is Abric del mas dels Ous.
Xert is the kind of village you pass through on the way to somewhere else and then wonder why you did not stop. It lies in the Baix Maestrat in northern Castellón, below a ridge of bare limestone, with the old village climbing the slope and a newer part down by the road. The shelter called the Abric del Mas dels Ous, the shelter of the farmhouse of the eggs, is out in the dry hills nearby, between Xert, Canet lo Roig and Rosell.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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Abric del mas dels Ous comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de mas del Abogat.
Calaceite is the kind of village that makes you slow down without being asked: honey-coloured stone, arcaded squares, a big baroque church and grand old houses with carved doorways, all perched on a ridge in the Matarraña, the corner of Teruel where Aragón meets Catalonia and Valencia. A few kilometres from it lies the Cueva de Mas del Abogat, one of the painted rock shelters that belong to the UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula. As with its sisters across eastern Spain, the paintings are small and often hard to read; the setting is what you take away.
Read the complete Cueva de mas del Abogat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de mas del Abogat. Next is back through Abric del mas dels Ous.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous, late in the day. 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.
Back at Barranco de Gibert I. That is the ride.
Barranco de Gibert I → Abric del mas dels Ous is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → Cueva de mas del Abogat is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de mas del Abogat → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → Barranco de Gibert I is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.