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 Benassal it runs 300 km to Benassal; allow about 6 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Centelles- Abric I, Abric del mas dels Ous, Valmayor V and back through Abric del mas dels Ous. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Culla stands on a hilltop in the interior of Castellón, a medieval village of stone houses and narrow lanes wrapped around the remains of a castle. In the thirteenth century, after the Christian conquest, the area was granted to the Knights Templar, and later to the Order of Montesa, which explains the old walls and the sense of a place built for defence. Below the village, among the ravines and terraces, the rock shelter of Els Covarxos holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like many such shelters, it is protected and not easy to find on your own; enquire locally before setting off on foot.
Read the complete Els Covarxos write-up.
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Els Covarxos is where the day begins. Next is Centelles- Abric I.
Albocàsser and Catí are two quiet stone towns in the inland hills of Castellón, and between them, in a rocky ravine, the Centelles shelters hold some of the prehistoric paintings that make this corner of Spain a capital of Levantine rock art. The style is distinctive: small human figures, often archers, painted in red with long legs and dynamic poses, hunting deer, ibex and boar, sometimes in groups, sometimes in battle. The sites are part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Valltorta gorge, near Tírig, holds some of the most famous examples, and its museum explains the art and the people who made it.
Read the complete Centelles- Abric I write-up.
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Centelles- Abric I 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 55 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 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Centelles- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Centelles- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Centelles- Abric I comes up about 271 km into the recorded legs. Next is Els Covarxos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Els Covarxos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Els Covarxos closes the day.
Els Covarxos → Centelles- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric I → Abric del mas dels Ous is 26 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 Centelles- Abric I is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Centelles- Abric I → Els Covarxos is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.