CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Obón it runs 483 km to Obón; allow about 10 h 25 of riding. On the way it passes friso Abierto del Pudial, Coveta de la Cornisa, Centelles- Abric I and Galeria alta de la masia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
You reach La Coquinera through some of the emptiest country in Spain. The rock shelter lies in the hills of the Río Martín Cultural Park, in the triangle between Oliete, Estercuel and Alacón, where the Martín river and its side ravines have sliced the Teruel plateau into terraces, cliffs and narrow gorges. The paintings here belong to the same Mediterranean tradition as the dozens of other panels in the park, figures of animals and people in ochre red, small enough that you have to stand close and let your eyes adjust before they emerge from the stone.
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La Coquinera is where the day begins. Next is friso Abierto del Pudial.
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.
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friso Abierto del Pudial comes up 39 km in. 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.
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78 km in you reach Coveta de la Cornisa. 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.
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Centelles- Abric I, about halfway. Next is Galeria alta de la masia.
Morella is one of those hill towns that makes you pull over for a photograph before you even know what it is. Its castle crowns a steep crag, its walls run down the slope in a ragged line, and the old streets climb in a spiral to the top. It stands at around a thousand metres in the Els Ports highlands in northern Castellón, near the borders of Aragon and Catalonia, and the surrounding country is wide, cold, windswept and dotted with stone farmhouses. The rock shelters nearby preserve some of the most famous painted scenes of Levantine rock art, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
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Galeria alta de la masia sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Centelles- Abric I.
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back through Centelles- Abric I comes up 194 km in. Next is back through Coveta de la Cornisa.
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233 km in you reach back through Coveta de la Cornisa. Next is back through friso Abierto del Pudial.
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back through friso Abierto del Pudial, late in the day. Next is La Coquinera.
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The route ends here after 483 km.
La Coquinera → friso Abierto del Pudial is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
friso Abierto del Pudial → Coveta de la Cornisa is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → Centelles- Abric I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric I → Galeria alta de la masia is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Galeria alta de la masia → back through Centelles- Abric I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Centelles- Abric I → back through Coveta de la Cornisa is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta de la Cornisa → back through friso Abierto del Pudial is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through friso Abierto del Pudial → La Coquinera is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.