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 Morella it runs 289 km to Morella; allow about 4 h 56 of riding. On the way it passes Abric de les Llibreres, Cova de l'Escoda and back through Abric de les Llibreres. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Morella is one of the most dramatic towns in Spain: a walled medieval city wrapped around a conical hill, with a castle on the summit and its walls running unbroken around the base. It stands in the mountains of the Ports in the north of Castellón province, at around a thousand metres, and its silhouette, seen from the roads that climb toward it, is unforgettable. The Coveta de la Cornisa, the little cave of the ledge, lies in the hills about four kilometres away.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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Coveta de la Cornisa is where the day begins. Next is Abric de les Llibreres.
The Montsià range rises abruptly from the coastal plain at the southern tip of Catalonia, a long, rocky ridge of limestone that separates the Ebro delta from the inland valleys. Around its foot lie the villages of Santa Bàrbara, Masdenverge and Ulldecona, surrounded by olive groves, some of them with ancient trees hundreds of years old, their trunks twisted into extraordinary shapes. The Abric de les Llibreres is one of the prehistoric rock shelters in this area, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Abric de les Llibreres write-up.
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Abric de les Llibreres comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de l'Escoda.
The Mediterranean Basin rock art does not end at the Valencian border, and the Cova de l'Escoda is a reminder that the painted shelters stretch up into Catalonia. This one lies in the hills inland from the Costa Daurada, in the dry, rugged country of the Baix Camp and the Ribera d'Ebre, with the Serra de Llaberia to the north and the Ebro valley to the south-west. The shelter belongs to the group listed by UNESCO in 1998, and its paintings are in the Levantine style. The nearest places on the map are El Perelló and Ginestar, though the largest town in the area is Mont-roig del Camp, some sixteen kilometres away.
Read the complete Cova de l'Escoda write-up.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de l'Escoda. Next is back through Abric de les Llibreres.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les Llibreres write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de les Llibreres, late in the day. Next is Coveta de la Cornisa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Coveta de la Cornisa. That is the ride.
Coveta de la Cornisa → Abric de les Llibreres is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de les Llibreres → Cova de l'Escoda is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de l'Escoda → back through Abric de les Llibreres is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de les Llibreres → Coveta de la Cornisa is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.