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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271 km from l'Ametlla de Mar to l'Ametlla de Mar, about 5 h 21 of riding. 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
South of Tortosa the Ebro river slows down and spreads into one of the great wetlands of the western Mediterranean, but a few kilometres inland the country is hilly and dry, with limestone outcrops and terraced olives. Cova del Taller sits somewhere in this landscape of the Baix Ebre, near El Perelló and L'Ampolla, and is one of the shelters that carry prehistoric paintings in Catalonia.
Read the complete Cova del Taller write-up.
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Cova del Taller 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 46 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.
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about 81 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 152 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 224 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova del Taller.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova del Taller write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cova del Taller closes the day.
Cova del Taller → Abric de masets is 46 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 del Taller is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.