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 Oropesa del Mar it runs 234 km to Oropesa del Mar; allow about 4 h 21 of riding. The stops in between: Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal, Villaroges, Barranco de Gibert II and back through Villaroges. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Cova alta del Llidoner is where the day begins. Next is Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal.
Cingle means a cliff in Valencian, and the Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal is one of the rocky bands that cut across the hills of northern Castellón, in the Maestrat region. The shelters in these cliffs hold paintings of the Levantine rock art tradition, red figures of archers, goats and deer, protected by UNESCO as part of the Mediterranean Basin group. The Valltorta gorge nearby is one of the richest concentrations of this art, and there is a museum in the village of Tírig that explains the painted shelters. The shelters themselves are fragile and often restricted.
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Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villaroges.
Villaroges is one of those names that appears on a map of prehistoric sites rather than a road atlas, somewhere in the high country of the Alt Maestrat between Benassal, Culla and Vilafranca. It belongs to the extraordinary concentration of rock art in the mountains of Castellón, where small painted shelters are scattered through the ravines, protected as part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. Exactly where the panel lies, and whether it can be visited, is a question for the local tourist office or the museum at Tírig; treat the name as an invitation into one of the emptiest and most beautiful corners of eastern Spain.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Villaroges. Next is Barranco de Gibert II.
Up on the roof of the Maestrazgo, where Teruel and Castellón meet, the land rises above fourteen hundred metres into a bleak, beautiful plateau of pasture, pine and limestone. Mosqueruela, on the Aragonese side, is one of the highest villages in the area, and Vilafranca, on the Valencian side, sits in a valley below. The Barranco de Gibert cuts into the hills between them, close also to La Iglesuela del Cid, and its second shelter holds prehistoric paintings.
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Barranco de Gibert II, about halfway. Next is back through Villaroges.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villaroges write-up.
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back through Villaroges sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal write-up.
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back through Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal comes up about 193 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Cova alta del Llidoner closes the day.
Cova alta del Llidoner → Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal → Villaroges is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villaroges → Barranco de Gibert II is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco de Gibert II → back through Villaroges is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villaroges → back through Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal → Cova alta del Llidoner is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.