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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196 km from Albocàsser to Albocàsser, about 4 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Abric del mas dels Ous, Galeria del Roure, Abric de la Tenalla and back through Galeria del Roure. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
A line of archers closing in on a herd of deer, one animal already wounded and fleeing: the hunting scene in the Cova dels Cavalls is one of the most reproduced images of Spanish prehistoric art, and it sits in the Barranc de la Valltorta, a dry limestone gorge in the Castellón hinterland between Albocàsser and Tírig. The Valltorta shelters, together with nearby Gasulla, form one of the key groups of Levantine rock art, and the Museu de la Valltorta near Tírig runs guided visits to the main shelter and explains the paintings with replicas and finds. Check visiting times at the museum before you set off, because the shelter is only seen with a guide.
Read the complete Cova dels Cavalls write-up.
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Cova dels Cavalls is where the day begins. Next is Abric del mas dels Ous.
Xert is the kind of village you pass through on the way to somewhere else and then wonder why you did not stop. It lies in the Baix Maestrat in northern Castellón, below a ridge of bare limestone, with the old village climbing the slope and a newer part down by the road. The shelter called the Abric del Mas dels Ous, the shelter of the farmhouse of the eggs, is out in the dry hills nearby, between Xert, Canet lo Roig and Rosell.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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Abric del mas dels Ous comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Galeria del Roure.
Morella rises from the plateau of the Ports like something from a dream: a walled town wrapped around a rocky hill, crowned by a castle, with the Gothic basilica of Santa María la Mayor in the middle, and two kilometres of medieval walls with towers and gates running around the base. It is one of the most impressive historic towns in Spain, and the Galeria del Roure, a rock shelter about four kilometres away, is part of the cluster of prehistoric sites around Morella, including Morella la Vella, one of the important rock-art sites of the Valencian region, all part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The shelters are small and some are protected, so ask at the tourist office in town about visits.
Read the complete Galeria del Roure write-up.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Galeria del Roure. 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.
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Abric de la Tenalla, about halfway. Next is back through Galeria del Roure.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Galeria del Roure write-up.
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back through Galeria del Roure sits at 108 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas dels Ous.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous comes up about 174 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova dels Cavalls.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Cavalls write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cova dels Cavalls closes the day.
Cova dels Cavalls → Abric del mas dels Ous is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → Galeria del Roure is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Galeria del Roure → Abric de la Tenalla is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Tenalla → back through Galeria del Roure is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Galeria del Roure → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → Cova dels Cavalls is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.