CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 142 km round trip from Villafamés - roughly 2 h 49 in the saddle. It goes by way of Cova alta del Llidoner, Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal and back through Cova alta del Llidoner. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Villafamés announces itself from a long way off: a village of white and ochre houses stacked up a hill of reddish rock, with the remains of a castle crowning the top. It stands a little inland from the coast of Castellón, roughly between Borriol, Cabanes and the beach town of Benicàssim, close enough to the sea that you can smell salt on a westerly breeze turning, yet already in that rumpled hill country that leads up into the Maestrat.
Read the complete Castell de Villafamés write-up.
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Castell de Villafamés is where the day begins. Next is Cova alta del Llidoner.
Most people come to this stretch of the Castellón coast for the beaches at Benicàssim and Oropesa, and they never look up at the dry, scrubby hills a few kilometres inland. Up there, among the pines, rosemary and limestone ledges near Cabanes, the Cova alta del Llidoner is one of the rock shelters with prehistoric paintings that belong to the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art. It is a quiet, unshowy place, more about the feel of the land than about anything you can photograph.
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Cova alta del Llidoner comes up 29 km in. Next is Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal.
Cingle means a cliff in Valencian, and the Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal is one of the rocky bands that cut across the hills of northern Castellón, in the Maestrat region. The shelters in these cliffs hold paintings of the Levantine rock art tradition, red figures of archers, goats and deer, protected by UNESCO as part of the Mediterranean Basin group. The Valltorta gorge nearby is one of the richest concentrations of this art, and there is a museum in the village of Tírig that explains the painted shelters. The shelters themselves are fragile and often restricted.
Read the complete Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal write-up.
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59 km in you reach Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal. Next is back through Cova alta del Llidoner.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova alta del Llidoner write-up.
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back through Cova alta del Llidoner, late in the day. Next is Castell de Villafamés.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castell de Villafamés write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Castell de Villafamés. That is the ride.
Castell de Villafamés → Cova alta del Llidoner is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova alta del Llidoner → Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal → back through Cova alta del Llidoner is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova alta del Llidoner → Castell de Villafamés is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.