CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 189 km round trip from Montblanc - roughly 2 h 59 in the saddle. The stops in between: The, Triumphal Arch of Berá, Abric de Can Castellvi and back through Triumphal Arch of Berá. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
What matters is the country around it, which is some of the finest in inland Catalonia. You are in the Conca de Barberà, the basin of the Francolí river, a few kilometres from the walled town of Montblanc and the village of Alcover, with the wooded wall of the Serra de Prades rising to the west. The area is dotted with prehistoric rock shelters, part of the great arc of Mediterranean rock art that runs down eastern Spain, and many of the site names along these rides are exactly that: a ledge of sandstone or limestone where hunters painted deer and archers thousands of years ago.
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Britus Il is where the day begins. Next is The.
Inside a plain-looking farmhouse building is a domed hall from the fourth century, its cupola covered in mosaics of hunting scenes, biblical stories and figures that may represent the imperial family. Some scholars believe it was built as a mausoleum for Constans, son of Constantine the Great, who was killed in 350; others are not so sure, and the debate is part of the fun. The site belongs to the UNESCO listing for the Roman town of Tarraco.
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The comes up 30 km in. Next is Triumphal Arch of Berá.
For centuries traffic on the main coastal road of Catalonia drove straight through a Roman triumphal arch. The Arc de Berà stands on the line of the Via Augusta, the great Roman road from the Pyrenees to Cádiz, about twenty kilometres northeast of Tarragona, and until the road was diverted around it in the late twentieth century, cars and trucks passed under its single span. It was built at the end of the first century BC, and an inscription records that it was erected according to the will of Lucius Licinius Sura, a figure whose identity historians still discuss. It is part of the UNESCO listing for the Roman remains of Tarraco.
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60 km in you reach Triumphal Arch of Berá. Next is Abric de Can Castellvi.
The Penedès is wine country, and the landscape around Vilafranca del Penedès is a patchwork of vineyards rolling away toward the Montserrat massif in the north and the limestone hills of the Garraf in the south. Abric de Can Castellví is a small rock shelter in this landscape, one of the many sites of Levantine and schematic rock art scattered across Catalonia and included in the UNESCO serial site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like many such sites, it is modest in appearance, a hollow in the rock where faint painted figures have survived thousands of years, and access is often limited to protect the art.
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Abric de Can Castellvi, about halfway. Next is back through Triumphal Arch of Berá.
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Read the complete Triumphal Arch of Berá write-up.
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back through Triumphal Arch of Berá sits at 119 km, about halfway. Next is back through The.
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Read the complete The write-up.
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back through The comes up 149 km in. Next is Britus Il.
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Britus Il closes the day.
Britus Il → The is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The → Triumphal Arch of Berá is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Triumphal Arch of Berá → Abric de Can Castellvi is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Can Castellví → back through Triumphal Arch of Berá is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Triumphal Arch of Berá → back through The is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The → Britus Il is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.