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. On the way it passes 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.
Up on the roof of the Maestrazgo, where Teruel and Castellón meet, the land rises above fourteen hundred metres into a bleak, beautiful plateau of pasture, pine and limestone. Mosqueruela, on the Aragonese side, is one of the highest villages in the area, and Vilafranca, on the Valencian side, sits in a valley below. The Barranco de Gibert cuts into the hills between them, close also to La Iglesuela del Cid, and its second shelter holds prehistoric paintings.
Read the complete Barranco de Gibert II write-up.
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Barranco de Gibert II 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.
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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 II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco de Gibert II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranco de Gibert II. That is the ride.
Barranco de Gibert II → 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 II is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.