CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 148 km round trip from Albocàsser - roughly 3 h 18 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric del.mas Blanc, Roca del Senallo, molí Darrer- Abric I and mas d'en Badenes. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Blanc, 17 km on.
Benassal is a stone village on a high plateau in the Alt Maestrat, in the interior of Castellón, at around eight hundred metres above sea level, and it is known throughout the region for its spring water, the Font d'en Segures, which is bottled and sold across Spain. The Abric del Mas Blanc, the shelter of the white farmhouse, is one of the many rock-art sites in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art. The nearby Valltorta gorge, about twenty kilometres to the east, has some of the most famous Levantine paintings, including dramatic hunting scenes, and the Valltorta museum in Tírig is the best place to learn about them.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
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Abric del.mas Blanc comes up 17 km in. Next is Roca del Senallo.
The Maestrat of inland Castellón is a highland of stone: stone villages on hilltops, stone walls running for kilometres across the slopes, stone farmhouses called masos scattered over the plateau. Roca del Senallo is a rock shelter near Culla, Vilafranca and Benassal, one of many painted shelters in this region, and it belongs to the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Maestrat is one of the richest areas for Levantine art, with famous sites in the Valltorta gorge and around Ares and Albocàsser.
Read the complete Roca del Senallo write-up.
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33 km in you reach Roca del Senallo. Next is molí Darrer- Abric I.
The Alt Maestrat is the high, rugged interior of Castellón province, a country of limestone plateaus, deep ravines and stone villages perched on ridges, and it is crossed by a web of dry-stone walls that farmers have been building and rebuilding for centuries. Near the villages of Benassal, Catí and Villafranca del Cid, under a rock overhang beside an old mill site, the shelter called Molí Darrer holds prehistoric paintings, part of the scattered Levantine rock art that UNESCO inscribed as one site across eastern Spain.
Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric I write-up.
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molí Darrer- Abric I, about halfway. Next is mas d'en Badenes.
This is a thinly populated landscape of limestone plateaus, stone-walled terraces, holm oaks and old farmhouses, a world away from the beach resorts an hour to the east.
Read the complete mas d'en Badenes write-up.
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mas d'en Badenes sits at 67 km, about halfway. Next is back through molí Darrer- Abric I.
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Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric I write-up.
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back through molí Darrer- Abric I comes up 83 km in. Next is back through Roca del Senallo.
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Read the complete Roca del Senallo write-up.
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100 km in you reach back through Roca del Senallo. Next is back through Abric del.mas Blanc, 16 km on.
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Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
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back through Abric del.mas Blanc, late in the day. 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.
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The route ends here after 148 km.
Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I → Abric del.mas Blanc is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del.mas Blanc → Roca del Senallo is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roca del Senallo → molí Darrer- Abric I is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molí Darrer- Abric I → mas d'en Badenes is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mas d'en Badenes → back through molí Darrer- Abric I is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molí Darrer- Abric I → back through Roca del Senallo is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roca del Senallo → back through Abric del.mas Blanc is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del.mas Blanc → Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.