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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494 km from Rosell to Rosell, about 9 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Abric de la mostela, La Covassa, Castell de Villafamés and Peñón de Santo Espíritu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 91 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 136 km into the recorded legs you reach La Covassa. Next is Castell de Villafamés.
Villafamés announces itself from a long way off: a village of white and ochre houses stacked up a hill of reddish rock, with the remains of a castle crowning the top. It stands a little inland from the coast of Castellón, roughly between Borriol, Cabanes and the beach town of Benicàssim, close enough to the sea that you can smell salt on a westerly breeze turning, yet already in that rumpled hill country that leads up into the Maestrat.
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Castell de Villafamés, about halfway. Next is Peñón de Santo Espíritu.
Behind the orange groves of the Camp de Morvedre, a few kilometres inland from Sagunto, the land rises into the Sierra Calderona, a low range of pine woods, scrub and red sandstone that separates the coastal plain from the dry interior. The Peñón de Santo Espíritu is a rocky outcrop in these hills above the village of Gilet, and it carries prehistoric rock art in the Levantine tradition, the style of painted hunters, animals and human figures found in shelters along the Mediterranean side of Spain and listed by UNESCO as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The paintings are fragile and often protected, so do not expect to wander up and touch anything.
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Peñón de Santo Espíritu sits at 187 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castell de Villafamés.
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back through Castell de Villafamés comes up about 324 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 356 km into the recorded legs you reach back through La Covassa. Next is back through Abric de la mostela.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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 494 km.
Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Abric de la mostela is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la mostela → La Covassa is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Covassa → Castell de Villafamés is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castell de Villafamés → Peñón de Santo Espíritu is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Peñón de Santo Espíritu → back through Castell de Villafamés is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Castell de Villafamés → back through La Covassa is 32 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 45 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.