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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From Albocàsser it runs 199 km to Albocàsser; allow about 4 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of Abric del mas dels Ous, Galeria del Roure, Abric de la Tenalla and back through Galeria del Roure. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In 2018, UNESCO added the art of dry stone walling to its list of the intangible heritage of humanity, a joint listing by Spain and several other countries. Anyone who has ridden the lanes around Albocàsser will understand why. Every slope is stepped with terraces, every field is edged with a wall, and the walls, built without a speck of mortar, have stood for centuries. Small huts with corbelled roofs, called barraques in Valencian, shelter farmers from sun and rain. It is a vast, unsigned work of art, made by thousands of people over hundreds of years, and the hillsides would wash away without it.
Read the complete Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I write-up.
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Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Galeria del Roure.
Morella rises from the plateau of the Ports like something from a dream: a walled town wrapped around a rocky hill, crowned by a castle, with the Gothic basilica of Santa María la Mayor in the middle, and two kilometres of medieval walls with towers and gates running around the base. It is one of the most impressive historic towns in Spain, and the Galeria del Roure, a rock shelter about four kilometres away, is part of the cluster of prehistoric sites around Morella, including Morella la Vella, one of the important rock-art sites of the Valencian region, all part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The shelters are small and some are protected, so ask at the tourist office in town about visits.
Read the complete Galeria del Roure write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Galeria del Roure. Next is Abric de la Tenalla.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the wildest corners of the Valencian region, a cluster of tiny villages in the mountains where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet, and the Abric de la Tenalla lies on its southeastern edge, near Rosell. It is one of the many rock shelters in this area with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the nearby Serra de Godall and the Ulldecona shelters to the east are among the most important sites in Catalonia. The landscape is dramatic: limestone cliffs, deep gorges, pine and holm oak forests, and abandoned terraces where shepherds once grazed their flocks.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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Abric de la Tenalla, about halfway. Next is back through Galeria del Roure.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Galeria del Roure write-up.
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back through Galeria del Roure sits at 109 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous comes up about 176 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I closes the day.
Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I → Abric del mas dels Ous is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → Galeria del Roure is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Galeria del Roure → Abric de la Tenalla is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Tenalla → back through Galeria del Roure is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Galeria del Roure → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.