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 91 km round trip from Ares del Maestre - roughly 1 h 59 in the saddle. It goes by way of Coveta de montegordo, Abric del mas dels Ous and back through Coveta de montegordo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In Valencian, a cirerer is a cherry tree, and the name of El Cireral suggests an old cherry orchard or a place where wild cherries once grew. That fits the high country around Benassal, where the nights are cool and the fruit trees do well. The shelter lies about five kilometres from the town, in the dry hills of the Alt Maestrat, and carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain. The ride links it with a site called Calçaes del Matá, and with the Arenal de la Fonseca.
Read the complete El Cireral write-up.
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El Cireral is where the day begins. Next is Coveta de montegordo.
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 comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas dels Ous. Next is back through 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 through Coveta de montegordo, late in the day. Next is El Cireral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Cireral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at El Cireral. That is the ride.
El Cireral → Coveta de montegordo is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de montegordo → Abric del mas dels Ous is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → back through Coveta de montegordo is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta de montegordo → El Cireral is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.