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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
419 km from Albocàsser to Albocàsser, about 7 h 33 of riding. It goes by way of La fenellosa, Abrigo del Barranco Hondo and back through La fenellosa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Food in the Maestrat is mountain food: filling, simple and made with whatever the land gives. Lamb and kid from the local flocks, roasted or stewed with potatoes and herbs, take the place of fish. Cured sausages, ham and cecina, dried and salted meat, hang in the farm shops. Olive oil, bread, almonds, cheese from Catí, and honey fill the larder, and in the colder months, you can find thick stews and bean dishes made with pork. Wine is local, strong and unpretentious. If you ride here, plan to eat well and slowly, and do not be in a hurry.
Read the complete Covetes del Puntal- Abric I write-up.
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Covetes del Puntal- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is La fenellosa.
People in Aragón like to call the Matarraña their Tuscany, and for once the comparison is not entirely marketing. It is a comarca of honey-coloured stone villages on hilltops, olive groves on terraces, almond trees and vineyards, with the limestone wall of the Ports de Beseit rising behind. La Fenellosa lies in this country, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and Mas de Barberans across the Catalan line, in the rough hills where the farmland gives way to the mountains.
Read the complete La fenellosa write-up.
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La fenellosa comes up about 113 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
Castellote is one of those villages in the Teruel Maestrazgo that seems to have been built by people who wanted to be left alone. Its houses pile up beneath a great rock wall topped by the ruins of a castle associated with the Knights Templar, and the Guadalope river winds below on its way into the Santolea reservoir. The Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, a painted rock shelter in a deep ravine outside the village, is part of the extensive collection of Levantine rock art scattered through these mountains, with small figures in red ochre that have survived on the stone for millennia.
Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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about 204 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Barranco Hondo. Next is back through La fenellosa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La fenellosa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La fenellosa, late in the day. Next is Covetes del Puntal- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covetes del Puntal- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Covetes del Puntal- Abric I. That is the ride.
Covetes del Puntal- Abric I → La fenellosa is 113 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La fenellosa → Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → back through La fenellosa is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La fenellosa → Covetes del Puntal- Abric I is 113 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.