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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482 km from Vilafranca del Penedès to Vilafranca del Penedès, about 8 h 03 of riding. On the way it passes Triumphal Arch of Berá, Britus Il, La Vall de la Coma and Camino de la Cova Plana II. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The vineyards of the Penedès roll out in every direction from Vilafranca, and the Cova dels Segarulls lies among them, a few kilometres outside the town in the low hills toward the coastal range.
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Cova dels Segarulls is where the day begins. Next is Triumphal Arch of Berá.
For centuries traffic on the main coastal road of Catalonia drove straight through a Roman triumphal arch. The Arc de Berà stands on the line of the Via Augusta, the great Roman road from the Pyrenees to Cádiz, about twenty kilometres northeast of Tarragona, and until the road was diverted around it in the late twentieth century, cars and trucks passed under its single span. It was built at the end of the first century BC, and an inscription records that it was erected according to the will of Lucius Licinius Sura, a figure whose identity historians still discuss. It is part of the UNESCO listing for the Roman remains of Tarraco.
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Triumphal Arch of Berá comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Britus Il.
What matters is the country around it, which is some of the finest in inland Catalonia. You are in the Conca de Barberà, the basin of the Francolí river, a few kilometres from the walled town of Montblanc and the village of Alcover, with the wooded wall of the Serra de Prades rising to the west. The area is dotted with prehistoric rock shelters, part of the great arc of Mediterranean rock art that runs down eastern Spain, and many of the site names along these rides are exactly that: a ledge of sandstone or limestone where hunters painted deer and archers thousands of years ago.
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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Britus Il. Next is La Vall de la Coma.
The Garrigues is the dry heart of Lleida province, a land of terraced hills, stone walls and endless olive groves, and La Vall de la Coma is one of its quiet valleys, in the municipality of L'Albi. In a few rock shelters here, prehistoric people painted small figures in red, part of the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean basin that is recognized as a World Heritage Site. The paintings are fragile and modest in size, and access is usually organized through local guides or interpretation centres, so plan ahead rather than expecting to wander in.
Read the complete La Vall de la Coma write-up.
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La Vall de la Coma, about halfway. Next is Camino de la Cova Plana II.
Three rivers come together near Mequinenza: the Ebro, flowing in from the west, and the Segre and Cinca, arriving together from the Pyrenees to the north. The meeting point, now swallowed by the reservoirs behind the dams, has always been a strategic place, and the much-restored castle on the hill above the town has watched over it for centuries. The Camino de la Cova Plana is a track in the hills east of town, towards the Catalan border, and the site recorded here is one of the many prehistoric rock shelters scattered across this dry, rugged landscape.
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Camino de la Cova Plana II sits at 173 km, about halfway. Next is back through La Vall de la Coma.
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Read the complete La Vall de la Coma write-up.
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back through La Vall de la Coma comes up about 331 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Britus Il.
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Read the complete Britus Il write-up.
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about 382 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Britus Il. Next is back through Triumphal Arch of Berá.
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Read the complete Triumphal Arch of Berá write-up.
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back through Triumphal Arch of Berá, late in the day. Next is Cova dels Segarulls.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Segarulls write-up.
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The route ends here after 482 km.
Cova dels Segarulls → Triumphal Arch of Berá is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Triumphal Arch of Berá → Britus Il is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Britus Il → La Vall de la Coma is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Vall de la Coma → Camino de la Cova Plana II is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Camino de la Cova Plana II → back through La Vall de la Coma is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Vall de la Coma → back through Britus Il is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Britus Il → back through Triumphal Arch of Berá is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Triumphal Arch of Berá → Cova dels Segarulls is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.