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 193 km round trip from Villafranca del Cid - roughly 4 h 03 in the saddle. It goes by way of molí Darrer- Abric I, mas d'en Badenes, molí Darrer- Abric II and Centelles- Abric I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
This is high Maestrat country, where Castellón's mountains roll into Teruel's, and the small rock shelter called the Covatina del Tossalet del Mas de la Rambla belongs to a family of sites that UNESCO lists together as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Under overhangs like this one, hunters and early farmers painted small, lively figures in red and black: archers in mid-stride, deer and ibex, scenes of hunting and gathering. The style, called Levantine art, is unusual for its movement and its storytelling, and many of the shelters are tiny, fragile and kept behind fences. Access is often by guided visit only, so check with the local tourist office before you count on seeing the paintings.
Read the complete Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla write-up.
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Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is where the day begins. Next is molí Darrer- Abric I.
The Alt Maestrat is the high, rugged interior of Castellón province, a country of limestone plateaus, deep ravines and stone villages perched on ridges, and it is crossed by a web of dry-stone walls that farmers have been building and rebuilding for centuries. Near the villages of Benassal, Catí and Villafranca del Cid, under a rock overhang beside an old mill site, the shelter called Molí Darrer holds prehistoric paintings, part of the scattered Levantine rock art that UNESCO inscribed as one site across eastern Spain.
Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric I write-up.
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molí Darrer- Abric I comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is mas d'en Badenes.
This is a thinly populated landscape of limestone plateaus, stone-walled terraces, holm oaks and old farmhouses, a world away from the beach resorts an hour to the east.
Read the complete mas d'en Badenes write-up.
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about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach mas d'en Badenes. Next is molí Darrer- Abric II.
A molí is a mill, and the one that lends its name to this shelter was presumably a water mill on one of the small streams that trickle through the hills around Benassal, in the high interior of Castellón province. Molí Darrer, the Last Mill, was probably the last one before the water ran out or the valley ended, and the shelter here, Abric II, lies about nine kilometres from the town. It carries paintings of the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and is linked to a neighbouring shelter at Mas d'en Badenes and to the Centelles site, which are on the same ride.
Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric II write-up.
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molí Darrer- Abric II, about halfway. Next is Centelles- Abric I.
Albocàsser and Catí are two quiet stone towns in the inland hills of Castellón, and between them, in a rocky ravine, the Centelles shelters hold some of the prehistoric paintings that make this corner of Spain a capital of Levantine rock art. The style is distinctive: small human figures, often archers, painted in red with long legs and dynamic poses, hunting deer, ibex and boar, sometimes in groups, sometimes in battle. The sites are part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Valltorta gorge, near Tírig, holds some of the most famous examples, and its museum explains the art and the people who made it.
Read the complete Centelles- Abric I write-up.
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Centelles- Abric I sits at 66 km, about halfway. Next is back through molí Darrer- Abric II.
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Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric II write-up.
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back through molí Darrer- Abric II comes up about 129 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through mas d'en Badenes.
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Read the complete mas d'en Badenes write-up.
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about 158 km into the recorded legs you reach back through mas d'en Badenes. Next is back through molí Darrer- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric I write-up.
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back through molí Darrer- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla write-up.
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The route ends here after 193 km.
Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla → molí Darrer- Abric I is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molí Darrer- Abric I → mas d'en Badenes is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mas d'en Badenes → molí Darrer- Abric II is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molí Darrer- Abric II → Centelles- Abric I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric I → back through molí Darrer- Abric II is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molí Darrer- Abric II → back through mas d'en Badenes is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through mas d'en Badenes → back through molí Darrer- Abric I is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molí Darrer- Abric I → Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.