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 Morella it runs 289 km to Morella; allow about 4 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: Abric de les Llibreres, Cova de l'Escoda and back through Abric de les Llibreres. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Morella rises from the plateau of the Ports like something from a dream: a walled town wrapped around a rocky hill, crowned by a castle, with the Gothic basilica of Santa María la Mayor in the middle, and two kilometres of medieval walls with towers and gates running around the base. It is one of the most impressive historic towns in Spain, and the Galeria del Roure, a rock shelter about four kilometres away, is part of the cluster of prehistoric sites around Morella, including Morella la Vella, one of the important rock-art sites of the Valencian region, all part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The shelters are small and some are protected, so ask at the tourist office in town about visits.
Read the complete Galeria del Roure write-up.
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Galeria del Roure is where the day begins. Next is Abric de les Llibreres.
The Montsià range rises abruptly from the coastal plain at the southern tip of Catalonia, a long, rocky ridge of limestone that separates the Ebro delta from the inland valleys. Around its foot lie the villages of Santa Bàrbara, Masdenverge and Ulldecona, surrounded by olive groves, some of them with ancient trees hundreds of years old, their trunks twisted into extraordinary shapes. The Abric de les Llibreres is one of the prehistoric rock shelters in this area, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Abric de les Llibreres write-up.
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Abric de les Llibreres comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de l'Escoda.
The Mediterranean Basin rock art does not end at the Valencian border, and the Cova de l'Escoda is a reminder that the painted shelters stretch up into Catalonia. This one lies in the hills inland from the Costa Daurada, in the dry, rugged country of the Baix Camp and the Ribera d'Ebre, with the Serra de Llaberia to the north and the Ebro valley to the south-west. The shelter belongs to the group listed by UNESCO in 1998, and its paintings are in the Levantine style. The nearest places on the map are El Perelló and Ginestar, though the largest town in the area is Mont-roig del Camp, some sixteen kilometres away.
Read the complete Cova de l'Escoda write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de l'Escoda. Next is back through Abric de les Llibreres.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les Llibreres write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de les Llibreres, late in the day. Next is Galeria del Roure.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Galeria del Roure write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Galeria del Roure. That is the ride.
Galeria del Roure → Abric de les Llibreres is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de les Llibreres → Cova de l'Escoda is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de l'Escoda → back through Abric de les Llibreres is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de les Llibreres → Galeria del Roure is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.