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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316 km from Oropesa del Mar to Oropesa del Mar, about 6 h 37 of riding. The stops in between: Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla, Abric de la Tenalla and back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Most people come to this stretch of the Castellón coast for the beaches at Benicàssim and Oropesa, and they never look up at the dry, scrubby hills a few kilometres inland. Up there, among the pines, rosemary and limestone ledges near Cabanes, the Cova alta del Llidoner is one of the rock shelters with prehistoric paintings that belong to the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art. It is a quiet, unshowy place, more about the feel of the land than about anything you can photograph.
Read the complete Cova alta del Llidoner write-up.
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Cova alta del Llidoner is where the day begins. Next is Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla.
This is high Maestrat country, where Castellón's mountains roll into Teruel's, and the small rock shelter called the Covatina del Tossalet del Mas de la Rambla belongs to a family of sites that UNESCO lists together as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Under overhangs like this one, hunters and early farmers painted small, lively figures in red and black: archers in mid-stride, deer and ibex, scenes of hunting and gathering. The style, called Levantine art, is unusual for its movement and its storytelling, and many of the shelters are tiny, fragile and kept behind fences. Access is often by guided visit only, so check with the local tourist office before you count on seeing the paintings.
Read the complete Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla write-up.
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Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la Tenalla.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the wildest corners of the Valencian region, a cluster of tiny villages in the mountains where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet, and the Abric de la Tenalla lies on its southeastern edge, near Rosell. It is one of the many rock shelters in this area with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the nearby Serra de Godall and the Ulldecona shelters to the east are among the most important sites in Catalonia. The landscape is dramatic: limestone cliffs, deep gorges, pine and holm oak forests, and abandoned terraces where shepherds once grazed their flocks.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Tenalla. Next is back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla, late in the day. Next is Cova alta del Llidoner.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova alta del Llidoner write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cova alta del Llidoner. That is the ride.
Cova alta del Llidoner → Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla → Abric de la Tenalla is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Tenalla → back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla → Cova alta del Llidoner is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.