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 148 km round trip from Borriol - roughly 2 h 49 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cova alta del Llidoner, Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal and back through Cova alta del Llidoner. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Just behind Castelló de la Plana, where the coastal plain meets the first hills, the ravine of La Joquera cuts into the limestone near the village of Borriol. Its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean basin, and the area has been studied for its archaeology for decades. It is unusual to find such ancient art so close to a large modern city, and the contrast between the busy plain below, with its orange groves, factories and motorways, and the quiet hills above is striking.
Read the complete La Joquera write-up.
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La Joquera is where the day begins. Next is Cova alta del Llidoner.
Most people come to this stretch of the Castellón coast for the beaches at Benicàssim and Oropesa, and they never look up at the dry, scrubby hills a few kilometres inland. Up there, among the pines, rosemary and limestone ledges near Cabanes, the Cova alta del Llidoner is one of the rock shelters with prehistoric paintings that belong to the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art. It is a quiet, unshowy place, more about the feel of the land than about anything you can photograph.
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Cova alta del Llidoner comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal.
Cingle means a cliff in Valencian, and the Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal is one of the rocky bands that cut across the hills of northern Castellón, in the Maestrat region. The shelters in these cliffs hold paintings of the Levantine rock art tradition, red figures of archers, goats and deer, protected by UNESCO as part of the Mediterranean Basin group. The Valltorta gorge nearby is one of the richest concentrations of this art, and there is a museum in the village of Tírig that explains the painted shelters. The shelters themselves are fragile and often restricted.
Read the complete Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal write-up.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal. Next is back through Cova alta del Llidoner.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova alta del Llidoner write-up.
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back through Cova alta del Llidoner, late in the day. Next is La Joquera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Joquera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at La Joquera. That is the ride.
La Joquera → Cova alta del Llidoner is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova alta del Llidoner → Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle dels Tolls del Puntal → back through Cova alta del Llidoner is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova alta del Llidoner → La Joquera is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.