CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 176 km round trip from Mequinensa / Mequinenza - roughly 3 h 03 in the saddle. It goes by way of 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.
Where the Segre and the Cinca rivers meet the Ebro, the land opens out into a dry, tawny basin that feels far from the sea. Mequinenza sits at the heart of it, a small town of about 2,500 people that has a story unlike any other on the Ebro. The old town was flooded in the 1960s when the Ribarroja dam created the Mar de Aragón, a huge reservoir, and the inhabitants were moved to a new town built higher up. The writer Jesús Moncada, born here, wrote about the vanished town in his novel Camino de sirga, and the loss still colours the way people talk about the place.
Read the complete Camino de la Cova Plana l write-up.
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Camino de la Cova Plana l 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 20 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 l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Camino de la Cova Plana l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Camino de la Cova Plana l. That is the ride.
Camino de la Cova Plana l → mas de Patriciel I is 19 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 l is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.