CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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175 km from Mequinensa / Mequinenza to Mequinensa / Mequinenza, about 3 h 05 of riding. The stops in between: mas de Patriciel I, mas de Torres and back through mas de Patriciel I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Three rivers come together near Mequinenza: the Ebro, flowing in from the west, and the Segre and Cinca, arriving together from the Pyrenees to the north. The meeting point, now swallowed by the reservoirs behind the dams, has always been a strategic place, and the much-restored castle on the hill above the town has watched over it for centuries. The Camino de la Cova Plana is a track in the hills east of town, towards the Catalan border, and the site recorded here is one of the many prehistoric rock shelters scattered across this dry, rugged landscape.
Read the complete Camino de la Cova Plana II write-up.
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Camino de la Cova Plana II is where the day begins. Next is mas de Patriciel I.
Where the Ebro and the Segre meet near Mequinenza, the rivers have been dammed into two long reservoirs, and the result is a strange, beautiful landscape of blue water filling deep valleys among dry, terraced hills. The rock shelters of Mas de Patriciel lie in the hills between Mequinenza, Nonaspe and Fayón, part of the network of painted sites that UNESCO listed as the Mediterranean rock art of Iberia.
Read the complete mas de Patriciel I write-up.
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mas de Patriciel I comes up 21 km in. Next is mas de Torres.
The Monegros in high summer is the closest thing Europe has to a desert, a wide, dry plateau of gypsum hills, wheat stubble and steppe scrub under a hard, white sky. Near the village of Candasnos, close to the main road between Zaragoza and Lleida, the shelter labelled Mas de Torres is one of the rock art sites of the Mediterranean Basin listed by UNESCO, a reminder that people lived and hunted here long before the land dried out to its present state.
Read the complete mas de Torres write-up.
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41 km in you reach mas de Torres. Next is back through mas de Patriciel I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete mas de Patriciel I write-up.
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back through mas de Patriciel I, late in the day. Next is Camino de la Cova Plana II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Camino de la Cova Plana II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Camino de la Cova Plana II. That is the ride.
Camino de la Cova Plana II → mas de Patriciel I is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mas de Patriciel I → mas de Torres is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mas de Torres → back through mas de Patriciel I is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through mas de Patriciel I → Camino de la Cova Plana II is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.