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 Rosell it runs 465 km to Rosell; allow about 9 h 33 of riding. It goes by way of Abric de la mostela, La Covassa, Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera and Els Covarxos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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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Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is where the day begins. 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.
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Abric de la mostela comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach La Covassa. Next is Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera.
The Maestrat is a quiet corner of Castellón, a country of dry-stone walls, almond groves and villages built on knolls, and the ravines that cut through it hide shelters painted with scenes from the Mesolithic and Neolithic. The Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera belongs to the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, a tradition inscribed by UNESCO in 1998, and it lies in the hills above Albocàsser, near the little towns of Catí and Les Coves de Vinromà. The best-known cluster, the Valltorta gorge, lies not far away, with a museum at Tírig that explains the art and gives access to some sites.
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Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera, about halfway. Next is Els Covarxos.
Culla stands on a hilltop in the interior of Castellón, a medieval village of stone houses and narrow lanes wrapped around the remains of a castle. In the thirteenth century, after the Christian conquest, the area was granted to the Knights Templar, and later to the Order of Montesa, which explains the old walls and the sense of a place built for defence. Below the village, among the ravines and terraces, the rock shelter of Els Covarxos holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like many such shelters, it is protected and not easy to find on your own; enquire locally before setting off on foot.
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Els Covarxos sits at 146 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera.
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back through Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera comes up about 276 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through La Covassa.
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Read the complete La Covassa write-up.
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about 329 km into the recorded legs you reach back through La Covassa. Next is back through Abric de la mostela.
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Read the complete Abric de la mostela write-up.
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back through Abric de la mostela, late in the day. Next is Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
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The route ends here after 465 km.
Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Abric de la mostela is 92 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 → Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera → Els Covarxos is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Els Covarxos → back through Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera → back through La Covassa is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.