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 Artesa de Segre it runs 304 km to Artesa de Segre; allow about 5 h 57 of riding. It goes by way of Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros, Antona I, Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars and back through Antona I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Between the plains of Lleida and the first serious mountains of the Pyrenees there is a band of country that most people cross without noticing, and it is a mistake. The Cova del Cogulló lies here, in the hills of the Noguera between Artesa de Segre and the Montsec, a long limestone wall that rises abruptly from the farmland. Rock shelters in these hills carry prehistoric paintings, part of the Mediterranean rock art tradition that runs all along eastern Spain, and the region's churches add a medieval layer, small Romanesque buildings in nearly every village.
Read the complete Cova del Cogulló write-up.
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Cova del Cogulló is where the day begins. Next is Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros.
Where the Segre comes down from the Pyrenees towards the plains of Lleida, it squeezes through a gap at Oliana, held back by a dam and a reservoir that fills the valley above. On the slopes nearby, Roc del Rumbau, also called the Roca dels Moros, the Moors' rock, is a shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the Catalan sites of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The name is a common one in Catalonia and Spain: local people often attributed anything ancient and mysterious to the Moors.
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Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Antona I.
In the Pre-Pyrenees of Lleida, the plain of Urgell ends and the land starts folding into dry, golden hills. Artesa de Segre, Camarasa and Cubells are small places along the edge of this country, where the Segre river and the Noguera Pallaresa bring water down from the mountains, and where reservoirs and gorges give the landscape its character. The Camarasa dam, built in the early twentieth century on the Noguera Pallaresa, is a big wall of concrete holding back a long, green-blue lake in a narrow valley.
Read the complete Antona I write-up.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Antona I. Next is Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars.
Os de Balaguer is a small village on the edge of the pre-Pyrenean hills in the Noguera district of Lleida, and the Cova dels Vilasos, also known as the Cova dels Vilars, lies just outside it. The site is one of the painted rock shelters of Catalonia counted within the Mediterranean rock art group protected by UNESCO, and its figures are small and reddish, drawn by people who lived from hunting and gathering in what was then a far wilder landscape. Like its neighbours it is protected and rarely dramatic at first sight; give your eyes a moment in the shade and the shapes begin to come out of the stone.
Read the complete Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars write-up.
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Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars, about halfway. Next is back through Antona I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Antona I write-up.
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back through Antona I sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros comes up about 246 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova del Cogulló.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova del Cogulló write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cova del Cogulló closes the day.
Cova del Cogulló → Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros → Antona I is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Antona I → Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars → back through Antona I is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Antona I → back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros → Cova del Cogulló is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.