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 Albocàsser it runs 108 km to Albocàsser; allow about 2 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: Abric de les Dogues, Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla and back through Abric de les Dogues. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Up in the dry limestone uplands of inland Castellón, the Valltorta and Gasulla ravines hold one of the densest concentrations of Levantine rock art in Spain, and the Coveta de Montegordo is one of its many small shelters. Painted under rock overhangs some seven or eight thousand years ago, perhaps more, the figures here are tiny, often no taller than a finger, yet astonishingly alive: archers running with bows drawn, goats and deer leaping, hunters following wounded animals. The whole region is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing inscribed by UNESCO in 1998, and the famous Cova dels Cavalls in the Valltorta shows a deer hunt with a line of archers waiting in ambush.
Read the complete Coveta de montegordo write-up.
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Coveta de montegordo is where the day begins. Next is Abric de les Dogues.
Benassal sits on a high shelf of the Alt Maestrat, over seven hundred metres up, and the cool, clear air has long made it a summer retreat from the coastal heat. The town has a spa tradition, with springs whose water is bottled and sold across the region, and a medieval centre of stone arcades and Gothic doorways that can stand a slow walk. The Abric de les Dogues, about two and a half kilometres away, is one of the painted shelters scattered through these hills, with Levantine art that UNESCO lists among the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Abric de les Dogues write-up.
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Abric de les Dogues comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla.
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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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla. Next is back through Abric de les Dogues.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les Dogues write-up.
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back through Abric de les Dogues, late in the day. Next is Coveta de montegordo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta de montegordo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Coveta de montegordo. That is the ride.
Coveta de montegordo → Abric de les Dogues is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de les Dogues → Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla → back through Abric de les Dogues is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de les Dogues → Coveta de montegordo is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.