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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A 297 km round trip from Ares del Maestre - roughly 6 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: La Saltadora- Abric I, Abric del mas dels Ous, Valmayor V and back through Abric del mas dels Ous. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ares del Maestrat hangs on a rocky crest in northern Castellón, one of the highest villages in the region, with a ruined castle above and a grid of narrow, stone-paved streets below. A few kilometres away the Gasulla ravine cuts a deep, wild line through the limestone, and its cliffs hold some of the great shelters of Levantine rock art. Cova Remigia, which has a number of separate shelters, or abrics, is among the best-known, with dozens of figures of archers, deer and ibex, many of them captured in mid-run. The Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula has been on the UNESCO list since 1998.
Read the complete Cova Remigia- Abric l write-up.
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Cova Remigia- Abric l is where the day begins. Next is La Saltadora- Abric I.
Albocàsser sits on a limestone shelf in the northern Maestrat, a farming village of about fourteen hundred people with a stone church, a market-day bustle and almond trees all around. A few kilometres from it, the Gasulla ravine and its neighbours hold Levantine rock paintings, and La Saltadora, the Jumper, is one of the shelters, named perhaps for a leaping figure or a nimble ledge. The Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula was added to the UNESCO list in 1998, and Abric I is a small but significant piece of that story.
Read the complete La Saltadora- Abric I write-up.
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La Saltadora- Abric I comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas dels Ous. Next is Valmayor V.
The Matarraña, in the far east of Teruel province, is often called the Tuscany of Aragon, and for once the comparison holds. Stone villages crown hilltops above olive groves and vineyards, rivers run clear through limestone gorges, and the light in the evening is honey-coloured. Valmayor is a ravine in the hills here, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and the Catalan border, and its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. As elsewhere, they are protected, and visits are best arranged through local tourist offices.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
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Valmayor V, 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.
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back through Abric del mas dels Ous sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through La Saltadora- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Saltadora- Abric I write-up.
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back through La Saltadora- Abric I comes up about 267 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova Remigia- Abric l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova Remigia- Abric l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cova Remigia- Abric l closes the day.
Cova Remigia- Abric l → La Saltadora- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Saltadora- Abric I → Abric del mas dels Ous is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → Valmayor V is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valmayor V → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → back through La Saltadora- Abric I is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Saltadora- Abric I → Cova Remigia- Abric l is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.