CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Albocàsser it runs 61 km to Albocàsser; allow about 1 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Abric del.mas Blanc, Roca del Senallo and back through Abric del.mas Blanc. 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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34 km in you reach Roca del Senallo. Next is back through Abric del.mas Blanc, 16 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cingle de l'Ermità -Abric I. That is the ride.
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 → 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.