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 161 km round trip from Bordón - roughly 3 h 06 in the saddle. It goes by way of Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, Coveta de la Cornisa and back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Deep in the Maestrazgo of Teruel, where the Guadalope river carves its way between limestone walls, the rock shelters around Castellote and Molinos hold painted figures left by prehistoric communities. The Friso Abierto del Pudial is one of them, an open frieze on a sheltered rock face, part of the extraordinary chain of Levantine art sites listed by UNESCO. The figures are faint, and visiting typically means a walk on rough ground, but the setting alone is worth the effort.
Read the complete friso Abierto del Pudial write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
friso Abierto del Pudial 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 about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coveta de la Cornisa.
Morella is one of the most dramatic towns in Spain: a walled medieval city wrapped around a conical hill, with a castle on the summit and its walls running unbroken around the base. It stands in the mountains of the Ports in the north of Castellón province, at around a thousand metres, and its silhouette, seen from the roads that climb toward it, is unforgettable. The Coveta de la Cornisa, the little cave of the ledge, lies in the hills about four kilometres away.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Coveta de la Cornisa. Next is back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A, late in the day. Next is friso Abierto del Pudial.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete friso Abierto del Pudial write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at friso Abierto del Pudial. That is the ride.
friso Abierto del Pudial → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → Coveta de la Cornisa is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → friso Abierto del Pudial is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.