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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A 262 km round trip from El Perelló - roughly 5 h 06 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abric de masets, Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin, Abric de la Bonansa and back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin. The line favours views over speed.
The Ebro is near its end here. South of Tortosa the river spreads into a flat delta of rice fields, lagoons and sand spits, and the coast of the Baix Ebre curves out into the sea. The Cova de les Calobres, the Cave of the Snakes, is a shelter inland from El Perelló, in the dry limestone hills of the Serra de Cardó. The rock paintings of this area belong to the Mediterranean-arc group that UNESCO listed in 1998, and the nearby shelters have given their names to the ride titles.
Read the complete Cova de les Calobres write-up.
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Cova de les Calobres is where the day begins. Next is Abric de masets.
The Montsià range rises like a wall behind the Ebro delta in southern Catalonia, a ridge of grey limestone with steep slopes and rocky crags, and in a shelter on its flanks, near Santa Bàrbara and Masdenverge, the Abric de Masets holds traces of prehistoric paintings. It is part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings here are faded and fragmentary, but the site is a reminder that people have lived and hunted in this landscape for thousands of years.
Read the complete Abric de masets write-up.
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Abric de masets comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the emptiest corners of the Valencian Community, a group of tiny stone villages scattered across rugged limestone mountains in the far north of Castellón, right where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragón meet. The Cova dels Rossegadors, also called the Cova del Polvorí, lies on the edge of this country near Rossell, with Mas de Barberans and Canet lo Roig the other nearby villages.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin. Next is Abric de la Bonansa.
Bonansa means fair weather, a calm sea or that lull after a storm, and it is a rather hopeful name to give a shelter in a land of wind and drought. The place lies on the high ground of the Baix Maestrat, a few kilometres from the village of Xert, known in Spanish as Chert, where the olive terraces start to climb toward the dry mountains of the interior. The shelter is one of the painted places of the Levantine rock art tradition, red figures on limestone that the UNESCO list of 1998 brought to wider notice.
Read the complete Abric de la Bonansa write-up.
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Abric de la Bonansa, about halfway. Next is back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de masets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de masets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de masets comes up about 220 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de les Calobres.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de les Calobres write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cova de les Calobres closes the day.
Cova de les Calobres → Abric de masets is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de masets → Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Abric de la Bonansa is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Bonansa → back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → back through Abric de masets is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de masets → Cova de les Calobres is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.