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 Calaceite it runs 378 km to Calaceite; allow about 9 h 20 of riding. The stops in between: Prop de la Cova Pintada, Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin, Abric d'Ermites I and back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ask a rider where the best quiet roads in Aragon are and, sooner or later, someone says Matarraña. It is the river and the district at the southern end of Teruel province, a land of olive terraces, almond orchards, honey-coloured villages and low limestone ridges, and people in Zaragoza call it the Tuscany of Aragon without any irony. The Cueva de la Font de la Bernarda sits in the hills a few kilometres from Calaceite, with Valderrobres just over the hill and the Catalan border not far beyond.
Read the complete Cueva de la font de la Bernarda write-up.
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Cueva de la font de la Bernarda is where the day begins. Next is Prop de la Cova Pintada.
The Ports massif rises abruptly at the meeting point of Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia, a tangle of limestone peaks, deep gorges and pine forest that feels surprisingly wild given how close it is to the Ebro delta and the coast. Prop de la Cova Pintada, meaning near the painted cave, sits on its southern side, between Mas de Barberans, Valderrobres and the old city of Tortosa.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the emptiest corners of the Valencian Community, a group of tiny stone villages scattered across rugged limestone mountains in the far north of Castellón, right where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragón meet. The Cova dels Rossegadors, also called the Cova del Polvorí, lies on the edge of this country near Rossell, with Mas de Barberans and Canet lo Roig the other nearby villages.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin. Next is Abric d'Ermites I.
Where Catalonia runs out, the Serra de Godall stands guard over Ulldecona, and in the rock faces under its ridge the oldest residents of the district left their paintings. Ulldecona is the southernmost town in the Tarragona province, a few kilometres from the Valencian border, and the shelters known collectively as Abrics de l'Ermita lie on the hill above the old hermitage. The Levantine paintings here, small and red, are part of the group UNESCO listed in 1998, and they are among the best preserved in Catalonia.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites I write-up.
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Abric d'Ermites I, about halfway. Next is back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
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back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Prop de la Cova Pintada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 294 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la font de la Bernarda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la font de la Bernarda write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de la font de la Bernarda closes the day.
Cueva de la font de la Bernarda → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Abric d'Ermites I is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric d'Ermites I → back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → back through Prop de la Cova Pintada is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada → Cueva de la font de la Bernarda is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.