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 106 km round trip from Benassal - roughly 2 h 14 in the saddle. It goes by way of molí Darrer- Abric I, mas d'en Badenes and back through molí Darrer- Abric I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Benassal and Culla are mountain villages in the Alt Maestrat, in the interior of the province of Castelló, a region of limestone plateaus, deep gorges and stone walls that feels a world away from the beaches of the coast. La Covassa del Molinell, a large rock shelter near Benassal, is one of many in the Maestrat with prehistoric paintings. The region is one of the richest areas for Levantine rock art, with the famous shelters of the Valltorta gorge, near Tírig, just to the east.
Read the complete La Covassa del molinell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
La Covassa del molinell is where the day begins. 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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molí Darrer- Abric I comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is mas d'en Badenes.
This is a thinly populated landscape of limestone plateaus, stone-walled terraces, holm oaks and old farmhouses, a world away from the beach resorts an hour to the east.
Read the complete mas d'en Badenes write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach mas d'en Badenes. Next is back through molí Darrer- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through molí Darrer- Abric I, late in the day. Next is La Covassa del molinell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Covassa del molinell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at La Covassa del molinell. That is the ride.
La Covassa del molinell → molí Darrer- Abric I is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molí Darrer- Abric I → mas d'en Badenes is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mas d'en Badenes → back through molí Darrer- Abric I is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molí Darrer- Abric I → La Covassa del molinell is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.