CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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137 km from Villafranca del Cid to Villafranca del Cid, about 3 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes molí Darrer- Abric I, Centelles- Abric I and back through molí Darrer- Abric I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The inland hills of Castellón are some of the emptiest in eastern Spain. Behind the orange groves and resorts of the coast the land rises into the Maestrat, a high, stony country of plateaus, gorges and stone-walled fields, where villages of a few hundred people cluster around fortified churches and the horizon is crowned by the bulk of Penyagolosa, nearly 1,800 metres high. Villafranca del Cid, Culla and Benassal lie in this landscape, and the Roca del Migdia, the Noon Rock, is a shelter in a limestone face that was painted in prehistory.
Read the complete La Roca del migdia write-up.
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La Roca del migdia 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 17 km in. 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.
Read the complete Centelles- Abric I write-up.
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34 km in you reach Centelles- Abric I. Next is back through molí Darrer- Abric I.
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Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric I write-up.
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back through molí Darrer- Abric I, late in the day. Next is La Roca del migdia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Roca del migdia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at La Roca del migdia. That is the ride.
La Roca del migdia → molí Darrer- Abric I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molí Darrer- Abric I → Centelles- Abric I is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric I → 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 Roca del migdia is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.