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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297 km from Ares del Maestre to Ares del Maestre, about 6 h 25 of riding. It goes by way of Calçaes del matá, Abric del mas dels Ous, Valmayor V and back through Abric del mas dels Ous. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Calçaes del matá.
Ares del Maestrat sits on a crag so steep that the village seems glued to the rock, and below it, in the Gasulla gorge, the Cingle de la Mola Remigia holds some of the most famous Levantine paintings in Spain, scenes of archers, hunters and even an execution. Calçaes del Matà is a shelter in the same broad landscape near Albocàsser, and with the Gasulla and Valltorta sites it belongs to the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The shelters here are reached on foot, and guided visits can be booked through the local museums.
Read the complete Calçaes del matá write-up.
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Calçaes del matá comes up about 29 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 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas dels Ous. Next is Valmayor V.
The Matarraña, in the far east of Teruel province, is often called the Tuscany of Aragon, and for once the comparison holds. Stone villages crown hilltops above olive groves and vineyards, rivers run clear through limestone gorges, and the light in the evening is honey-coloured. Valmayor is a ravine in the hills here, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and the Catalan border, and its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. As elsewhere, they are protected, and visits are best arranged through local tourist offices.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
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Valmayor V, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas dels Ous.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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back through Abric del mas dels Ous sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through Calçaes del matá.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Calçaes del matá write-up.
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back through Calçaes del matá comes up about 267 km into the recorded legs. 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.
El Cireral closes the day.
El Cireral → Calçaes del matá is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Calçaes del matá → 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 → Valmayor V is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valmayor V → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → back through Calçaes del matá is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Calçaes del matá → El Cireral is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.