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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
366 km from Ares del Maestre to Ares del Maestre, about 8 h 45 of riding. It goes by way of 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.
Puig is the Valencian word for a hill, and it is slightly funny to find it attached to a cliff, because the Cingle del Puig is not so much a hill as the sheer lip of a limestone terrace over a ravine. It lies above the Barranc de la Gasulla, less than six kilometres from Benassal and not far from Ares del Maestrat, a village that sits on a crag at more than a thousand metres and looks across the plateau like a ship on a rock. The high Maestrat has a stark, mineral beauty, with grey stone, dark green juniper and enormous skies.
Read the complete Cingle del Puig write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cingle del Puig 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 99 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.
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about 197 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 del Puig.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle del Puig write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cingle del Puig. That is the ride.
Cingle del Puig → Valmayor V is 99 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 del Puig is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.