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 142 km round trip from Morella - roughly 2 h 46 in the saddle. It goes by way of Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, Las Rozas I and back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Coveta de la Cornisa is where the day begins. Next is Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
Els Ports is the high, empty country in the north of Castellón province, a land of stone-walled terraces, deep gorges, juniper and pine, and villages that cling to ridges above the river valleys. Palanques is one of the smallest of them, and above it, in a long cliff band known as the Cingle de Palanques, are shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Levantine paintings here show human figures and animals in the expressive style typical of this coast's mountainous interior, and like most such sites, they are protected and usually visited with a local guide.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Rozas I.
The upper valley of the Guadalope in Teruel is a place where limestone has been folded, cut and carved into an extraordinary array of shapes: cliffs, gorges, natural arches and pinnacles, with the river winding between them in places of startling green. Near Castellote, the painted shelter labelled Las Rozas I is one of the sites of Levantine rock art listed by UNESCO. Its figures are faint and fragile, but they speak of people who hunted deer and ibex in these same valleys thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Las Rozas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Rozas I. Next is back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, 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 → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Las Rozas I is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Rozas I → back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Coveta de la Cornisa is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.