CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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384 km from Fuentespalda to Fuentespalda, about 6 h 22 of riding. On the way it passes Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, molí Darrer- Abric I, Abric del mas dels Ous and Abric del.mas Blanc. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Matarraña, or Matarranya in Catalan, is the corner of Teruel that tourism brochures like to call Spain's Tuscany, and for once the comparison is not silly. Olive groves and almond orchards climb rolling hills topped by stone villages with church towers, while to the south the limestone wall of the Ports de Beseit rises abruptly, cut by gorges and clear rivers. Near the village of Fuentespalda, a painted shelter called Els Figuerals adds this valley to the long UNESCO roll of Iberian rock art.
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Els figuerals is where the day begins. Next is Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
Els Ports is the high, empty country in the north of Castellón province, a land of stone-walled terraces, deep gorges, juniper and pine, and villages that cling to ridges above the river valleys. Palanques is one of the smallest of them, and above it, in a long cliff band known as the Cingle de Palanques, are shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Levantine paintings here show human figures and animals in the expressive style typical of this coast's mountainous interior, and like most such sites, they are protected and usually visited with a local guide.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
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Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A comes up 36 km in. Next is molí Darrer- Abric I.
The Alt Maestrat is the high, rugged interior of Castellón province, a country of limestone plateaus, deep ravines and stone villages perched on ridges, and it is crossed by a web of dry-stone walls that farmers have been building and rebuilding for centuries. Near the villages of Benassal, Catí and Villafranca del Cid, under a rock overhang beside an old mill site, the shelter called Molí Darrer holds prehistoric paintings, part of the scattered Levantine rock art that UNESCO inscribed as one site across eastern Spain.
Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric I write-up.
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72 km in you reach molí Darrer- Abric I. 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.
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Abric del mas dels Ous, about halfway. Next is Abric del.mas Blanc, 37 km on.
Benassal is a stone village on a high plateau in the Alt Maestrat, in the interior of Castellón, at around eight hundred metres above sea level, and it is known throughout the region for its spring water, the Font d'en Segures, which is bottled and sold across Spain. The Abric del Mas Blanc, the shelter of the white farmhouse, is one of the many rock-art sites in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art. The nearby Valltorta gorge, about twenty kilometres to the east, has some of the most famous Levantine paintings, including dramatic hunting scenes, and the Valltorta museum in Tírig is the best place to learn about them.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
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Abric del.mas Blanc sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas dels Ous.
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Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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back through Abric del mas dels Ous comes up 181 km in. Next is back through molí Darrer- Abric I.
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217 km in you reach back through molí Darrer- Abric I. Next is back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
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back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, late in the day. Next is Els figuerals.
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The route ends here after 384 km.
Els figuerals → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → molí Darrer- Abric I is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molí Darrer- Abric I → Abric del mas dels Ous is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → Abric del.mas Blanc is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del.mas Blanc → back through Abric del mas dels Ous is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas dels Ous → back through molí Darrer- Abric I is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molí Darrer- Abric I → back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Els figuerals is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.