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 496 km to Palanques; allow about 10 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Prop de la Cova Pintada, Valmayor IV 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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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 Valmayor IV.
Where the Ebro, the Segre and the Cinca meet in eastern Aragon, a vast reservoir stretches for dozens of kilometres between bare, ochre hills. The locals call it the Mar de Aragón, the Sea of Aragon, and it was created in the 1960s when the Mequinenza dam flooded the valley. The old town of Mequinenza went under the water too, and its people were moved to a new town built above, a story told in moving detail in the local museums and in the novels of Jesús Moncada, who grew up there.
Read the complete Valmayor IV write-up.
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about 249 km into the recorded legs you reach Valmayor IV. 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 → Valmayor IV is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Valmayor IV → back through Prop de la Cova Pintada is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 132 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.