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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A 369 km round trip from Ares del Maestre - roughly 8 h 48 in the saddle. The stops in between: Valmayor V, Abrigo del Plano del Pulido and back through Valmayor V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
A cingle is a long band of cliff, the kind of cliff that runs along the side of a hill like a belt, and the Cingle de la Mola Remigia is one of the great ones of the Maestrat. A mola is a table mountain, a flat-topped hill with sheer sides, and this one rises above a ravine near Benassal, about five kilometres from the village. The cliff face is a wall of pale limestone, stained with orange and grey, with ledges, overhangs and hollows that are as good for shelter today as they were when people began to paint on their walls.
Read the complete Cingle de la mola Remigia- Abric VIII write-up.
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Cingle de la mola Remigia- Abric VIII is where the day begins. Next is Valmayor V.
The Matarraña, in the far east of Teruel province, is often called the Tuscany of Aragon, and for once the comparison holds. Stone villages crown hilltops above olive groves and vineyards, rivers run clear through limestone gorges, and the light in the evening is honey-coloured. Valmayor is a ravine in the hills here, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and the Catalan border, and its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. As elsewhere, they are protected, and visits are best arranged through local tourist offices.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
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Valmayor V comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Plano del Pulido.
South of Caspe, the lower Aragón country is a dry, sculpted landscape of ochre hills, flat-topped mesas and gullies cut into soft sandstone, with almond and olive groves clinging to the valley floors. In these sandstone outcrops, prehistoric people found shelter and left paintings, and the Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is one of the rock shelters of the area included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The painted figures, in the reddish tones of Levantine art, are small and faded, and as at most of these sites, access is controlled and visits may need to be arranged in advance.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 198 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Plano del Pulido. Next is back through Valmayor V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Valmayor V, late in the day. Next is Cingle de la mola Remigia- Abric VIII.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle de la mola Remigia- Abric VIII write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cingle de la mola Remigia- Abric VIII. That is the ride.
Cingle de la mola Remigia- Abric VIII → Valmayor V is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valmayor V → Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Plano del Pulido → back through Valmayor V is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Valmayor V → Cingle de la mola Remigia- Abric VIII is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.