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 Albinyana it runs 255 km to Albinyana; allow about 4 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Abric de Can Castellvi, Roca Roja, Mas d'En Llort and back through Roca Roja. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Inland from the Costa Daurada, behind the beach towns of El Vendrell and Calafell, the land rises into the low hills of the Baix Penedès, a landscape of vineyards, almond and olive groves, pine woods and small villages. The Cova de Vallmajor, near Albinyana and Bonastre, is a rock shelter in these hills with prehistoric paintings, part of the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean that is recognised as a World Heritage Site. The paintings are faint and the shelter is protected, so visits are usually by arrangement.
Read the complete Cova de Vallmajor write-up.
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Cova de Vallmajor is where the day begins. Next is Abric de Can Castellvi.
The Penedès is wine country, and the landscape around Vilafranca del Penedès is a patchwork of vineyards rolling away toward the Montserrat massif in the north and the limestone hills of the Garraf in the south. Abric de Can Castellví is a small rock shelter in this landscape, one of the many sites of Levantine and schematic rock art scattered across Catalonia and included in the UNESCO serial site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like many such sites, it is modest in appearance, a hollow in the rock where faint painted figures have survived thousands of years, and access is often limited to protect the art.
Read the complete Abric de Can Castellvi write-up.
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Abric de Can Castellví comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roca Roja.
Roca Roja, the red rock, is a fitting name for this corner of inland Catalonia, where sandstone and conglomerate cliffs glow rust-coloured in the evening light above pine forest and small terraced fields. The point lies in the hills between Querol and Mediona, where the comarques of Alt Camp, Alt Penedès and Anoia meet, a rugged, thinly populated upland that most people speed past on the motorway between Barcelona and Lleida without realising it exists.
Read the complete Roca Roja write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Roca Roja. Next is Mas d'En Llort.
Montblanc is one of those small Catalan towns that still has its medieval walls, and the Mas d'en Llort label lies a few kilometres from it in the Conca de Barberà, a basin of vineyards and wheat fields ringed by low, scrubby mountains. A mas is a farmhouse, so the spot is probably a rural building or a field track rather than anything with a name on the map, and what you are really riding into is the countryside around it.
Read the complete Mas d'En Llort write-up.
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Mas d'En Llort, about halfway. Next is back through Roca Roja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roca Roja write-up.
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back through Roca Roja sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de Can Castellvi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Can Castellvi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de Can Castellvi comes up about 225 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de Vallmajor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de Vallmajor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cova de Vallmajor closes the day.
Cova de Vallmajor → Abric de Can Castellvi is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Can Castellví → Roca Roja is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roca Roja → Mas d'En Llort is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mas d'En Llort → back through Roca Roja is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roca Roja → back through Abric de Can Castellvi is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Can Castellvi → Cova de Vallmajor is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.