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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
404 km from El Perelló to El Perelló, about 8 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Abric de masets, Abric de la Tenalla, Abric de la mostela and La Covassa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de masets comes up about 42 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Tenalla. Next is Abric de la mostela.
The hill country around Albocàsser and Catí, in the north of Castellón province, is a landscape of terraced slopes, almond trees and limestone ravines that few visitors cross on their way from the coast to Morella.
Read the complete Abric de la mostela write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de la mostela, about halfway. Next is La Covassa.
Culla sits on a narrow rocky crest in the Alt Maestrat, the inland highlands of Castellón, its houses wrapped around the remains of a castle that once controlled a large swathe of these mountains. The Knights Templar held it in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the village still has the feel of a lookout, with views in every direction over terraced slopes, stone walls and empty ridges. La Covassa, just below the village, is one of the many rock shelters in this part of Valencia that hold prehistoric paintings, part of the Mediterranean rock art group that UNESCO protects across eastern Spain.
Read the complete La Covassa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
La Covassa sits at 150 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de la mostela.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la mostela write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de la mostela comes up about 248 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric de la Tenalla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 308 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric de la Tenalla. 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, late in the day. 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.
The route ends here after 404 km.
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 → Abric de la Tenalla is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Tenalla → Abric de la mostela is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la mostela → La Covassa is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Covassa → back through Abric de la mostela is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la mostela → back through Abric de la Tenalla is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Tenalla → back through Abric de masets is 54 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.