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 389 km round trip from El Perelló - roughly 9 h 18 in the saddle. The stops in between: Prop de la Cova Pintada, Abric d'Ermites VI, Abric del mas dels Ous and Abric del.mas Blanc. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
El Perelló is a hill village on the old coast road between Tarragona and Tortosa, and it is famous for honey. Bees have been kept on these scrubby limestone slopes for centuries, feeding on rosemary, thyme and wild flowers, and every winter the village holds a honey fair that draws visitors from across Catalonia. In the hills around, sheltered under an overhang, is the rock art of Cabra Feixet, part of the Levantine paintings of eastern Spain inscribed together by UNESCO. The figures are small and faded, and the site is best visited with a guide or after asking at the village; please do not touch the rock.
Read the complete Cabra feixet write-up.
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Cabra feixet is where the day begins. Next is Prop de la Cova Pintada.
The Ports massif rises abruptly at the meeting point of Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia, a tangle of limestone peaks, deep gorges and pine forest that feels surprisingly wild given how close it is to the Ebro delta and the coast. Prop de la Cova Pintada, meaning near the painted cave, sits on its southern side, between Mas de Barberans, Valderrobres and the old city of Tortosa.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric d'Ermites VI.
Ulldecona sits at the foot of the Serra de Godall, in the southern tip of Catalonia, close to the border with Valencia and a short distance from the Ebro delta. The town is an old one, set among olive groves that produce a good oil, and above it stands the hermitage of La Pietat, with long views to the sea. The Abric d'Ermites VI is one of the rock shelters of the Ermites group, painted in the Levantine style with small red figures of hunters, and part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art inscribed by UNESCO in 1998. The shelters lie in the cliffs of the Godall range, and access is by foot with regulations to protect the paintings.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites VI write-up.
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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric d'Ermites VI. 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, about halfway. Next is Abric del.mas Blanc, 35 km on.
Benassal is a stone village on a high plateau in the Alt Maestrat, in the interior of Castellón, at around eight hundred metres above sea level, and it is known throughout the region for its spring water, the Font d'en Segures, which is bottled and sold across Spain. The Abric del Mas Blanc, the shelter of the white farmhouse, is one of the many rock-art sites in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art. The nearby Valltorta gorge, about twenty kilometres to the east, has some of the most famous Levantine paintings, including dramatic hunting scenes, and the Valltorta museum in Tírig is the best place to learn about them.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
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Abric del.mas Blanc sits at 142 km, about halfway. 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.
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back through Abric del mas dels Ous comes up about 232 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric d'Ermites VI.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites VI write-up.
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about 273 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric d'Ermites VI. Next is back through Prop de la Cova Pintada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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back through Prop de la Cova Pintada, late in the day. Next is Cabra feixet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cabra feixet write-up.
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The route ends here after 389 km.
Cabra feixet → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Abric d'Ermites VI is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric d'Ermites VI → Abric del mas dels Ous is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → Abric del.mas Blanc is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del.mas Blanc → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → back through Abric d'Ermites VI is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric d'Ermites VI → back through Prop de la Cova Pintada is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada → Cabra feixet is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.