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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529 km from Villafamés to Villafamés, about 12 h 12 of riding. On the way it passes Cova de Gargán, Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla, Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d and El Cerrao. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. 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 de Gargán.
High in the interior of Castellón, where the coastal orange groves are long forgotten and the land climbs toward the Penyagolosa massif, the shelter known as Cova de Gargán sits in a country of limestone ledges, holm oak and dry-stone terraces. Vistabella del Maestrazgo is the nearest village, a handful of kilometres away on its high plateau, with Villahermosa del Río down in its valley to the other side and Lucena del Cid a little further south. It is quiet up here in a way that the coast never is.
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Cova de Gargán comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla.
This is high Maestrat country, where Castellón's mountains roll into Teruel's, and the small rock shelter called the Covatina del Tossalet del Mas de la Rambla belongs to a family of sites that UNESCO lists together as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Under overhangs like this one, hunters and early farmers painted small, lively figures in red and black: archers in mid-stride, deer and ibex, scenes of hunting and gathering. The style, called Levantine art, is unusual for its movement and its storytelling, and many of the shelters are tiny, fragile and kept behind fences. Access is often by guided visit only, so check with the local tourist office before you count on seeing the paintings.
Read the complete Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla write-up.
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about 120 km into the recorded legs you reach Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla. Next is Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d.
The Guadalope river cuts a deep canyon through the limestone of the Maestrazgo in eastern Teruel, and the Abrigo del Arenal de la Fonseca lies in this wild country near the hamlet of Ladruñán, between the villages of Castellote and Cantavieja. It is one of the important rock-art shelters of Aragon, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art, with Levantine paintings of animals and human figures in red pigment on the rock. The setting is spectacular: a narrow gorge with towering cliffs, the river flowing below, and pine and holm oak clinging to the slopes. Access involves a walk, and the paintings are protected by a fence.
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Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d, about halfway. Next is El Cerrao.
The Río Martín is a modest river by Spanish standards, but it has carved one of the most interesting canyons in Aragon, and the Cultural Park that takes its name protects an extraordinary collection of rock art. El Cerrao is one of the shelters in that park, in the district of Montalbán in the province of Teruel, among cliffs of pale limestone above a dry valley. The paintings here belong to the Levantine tradition and are part of the group UNESCO inscribed in 1998.
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El Cerrao sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d.
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Read the complete Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d comes up about 338 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla write-up.
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about 400 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla. Next is back through Cova de Gargán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de Gargán write-up.
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back through Cova de Gargán, 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.
The route ends here after 529 km.
Castell de Villafamés → Cova de Gargán is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de Gargán → Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla → Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d → El Cerrao is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Cerrao → back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d → back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla → back through Cova de Gargán is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova de Gargán → Castell de Villafamés is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.