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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186 km from Morella to Morella, about 3 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Abric del mas dels Ous, Cova dels Cavalls, La Covassa and back through Cova dels Cavalls. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 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 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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Abric del mas dels Ous comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova dels Cavalls.
A line of archers closing in on a herd of deer, one animal already wounded and fleeing: the hunting scene in the Cova dels Cavalls is one of the most reproduced images of Spanish prehistoric art, and it sits in the Barranc de la Valltorta, a dry limestone gorge in the Castellón hinterland between Albocàsser and Tírig. The Valltorta shelters, together with nearby Gasulla, form one of the key groups of Levantine rock art, and the Museu de la Valltorta near Tírig runs guided visits to the main shelter and explains the paintings with replicas and finds. Check visiting times at the museum before you set off, because the shelter is only seen with a guide.
Read the complete Cova dels Cavalls write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova dels Cavalls. 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.
Read the complete La Covassa write-up.
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La Covassa, about halfway. Next is back through Cova dels Cavalls.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Cavalls write-up.
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back through Cova dels Cavalls sits at 108 km, 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 comes up about 147 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Coveta de la Cornisa closes the day.
Coveta de la Cornisa → Abric del mas dels Ous is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → Cova dels Cavalls is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Cavalls → La Covassa is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Covassa → back through Cova dels Cavalls is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Cavalls → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → Coveta de la Cornisa is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.