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 Culla it runs 446 km to Culla; allow about 8 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo de la Vacada, Valmayor V and back through Abrigo de la Vacada. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Culla sits on a narrow rocky crest in the Alt Maestrat, the inland highlands of Castellón, its houses wrapped around the remains of a castle that once controlled a large swathe of these mountains. The Knights Templar held it in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the village still has the feel of a lookout, with views in every direction over terraced slopes, stone walls and empty ridges. La Covassa, just below the village, is one of the many rock shelters in this part of Valencia that hold prehistoric paintings, part of the Mediterranean rock art group that UNESCO protects across eastern Spain.
Read the complete La Covassa write-up.
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La Covassa is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Vacada.
Castellote is a hill town in the Maestrazgo, the high, dry and wonderfully empty country of southern Aragon, and the shelter of La Vacada lies among the limestone gorges nearby. The name suggests a place where cattle were gathered. The area has some of the finest Levantine rock art in Teruel, and the figures here are part of the Mediterranean-arc ensemble UNESCO recognised in 1998: slender red archers, deer and sometimes a hunting scene, painted on the walls of shallow caves. The rock is pale and the cliffs are cut by the river Guadalope, which carves a sequence of narrow canyons through the plateau.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Vacada write-up.
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Abrigo de la Vacada comes up about 115 km into the recorded legs. Next is Valmayor V.
The Matarraña, in the far east of Teruel province, is often called the Tuscany of Aragon, and for once the comparison holds. Stone villages crown hilltops above olive groves and vineyards, rivers run clear through limestone gorges, and the light in the evening is honey-coloured. Valmayor is a ravine in the hills here, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and the Catalan border, and its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. As elsewhere, they are protected, and visits are best arranged through local tourist offices.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
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about 223 km into the recorded legs you reach Valmayor V. Next is back through Abrigo de la Vacada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Vacada write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la Vacada, late in the day. Next is La Covassa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Covassa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at La Covassa. That is the ride.
La Covassa → Abrigo de la Vacada is 115 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Vacada → Valmayor V is 108 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valmayor V → back through Abrigo de la Vacada is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Vacada → La Covassa is 122 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.