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 Palanques it runs 425 km to Palanques; allow about 9 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Prop de la Cova Pintada, Abric mas de la Roca and back through Prop de la Cova Pintada. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Els Ports is the high, empty country in the north of Castellón province, a land of stone-walled terraces, deep gorges, juniper and pine, and villages that cling to ridges above the river valleys. Palanques is one of the smallest of them, and above it, in a long cliff band known as the Cingle de Palanques, are shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Levantine paintings here show human figures and animals in the expressive style typical of this coast's mountainous interior, and like most such sites, they are protected and usually visited with a local guide.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is where the day begins. Next is Prop de la Cova Pintada.
The Ports massif rises abruptly at the meeting point of Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia, a tangle of limestone peaks, deep gorges and pine forest that feels surprisingly wild given how close it is to the Ebro delta and the coast. Prop de la Cova Pintada, meaning near the painted cave, sits on its southern side, between Mas de Barberans, Valderrobres and the old city of Tortosa.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 123 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric mas de la Roca.
Northern Castellón is a hard, empty, beautiful part of Valencian Spain, a country of limestone ridges and terraced slopes some thirty kilometres back from the Mediterranean, and the Abric Mas de la Roca belongs to it, about six kilometres from the village of Xert, whose name is spelled Chert in Catalan and Valencian. Xert has fewer than a thousand people, Canet lo Roig and Catí are similar, and everything here is small and old.
Read the complete Abric mas de la Roca write-up.
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about 213 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric mas de la Roca. Next is back through Prop de la Cova Pintada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada, late in the day. Next is Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A. That is the ride.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 123 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Abric mas de la Roca is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric mas de la Roca → back through Prop de la Cova Pintada is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 133 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.