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 304 km round trip from Albocàsser - roughly 5 h 47 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cova Remigia- Abric l, Barranco de Gibert II, Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d and back through Barranco de Gibert II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Albocàsser sits on a limestone shelf in the northern Maestrat, a farming village of about fourteen hundred people with a stone church, a market-day bustle and almond trees all around. A few kilometres from it, the Gasulla ravine and its neighbours hold Levantine rock paintings, and La Saltadora, the Jumper, is one of the shelters, named perhaps for a leaping figure or a nimble ledge. The Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula was added to the UNESCO list in 1998, and Abric I is a small but significant piece of that story.
Read the complete La Saltadora- Abric I write-up.
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La Saltadora- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Cova Remigia- Abric l.
Ares del Maestrat hangs on a rocky crest in northern Castellón, one of the highest villages in the region, with a ruined castle above and a grid of narrow, stone-paved streets below. A few kilometres away the Gasulla ravine cuts a deep, wild line through the limestone, and its cliffs hold some of the great shelters of Levantine rock art. Cova Remigia, which has a number of separate shelters, or abrics, is among the best-known, with dozens of figures of archers, deer and ibex, many of them captured in mid-run. The Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula has been on the UNESCO list since 1998.
Read the complete Cova Remigia- Abric l write-up.
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Cova Remigia- Abric l comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco de Gibert II.
Up on the roof of the Maestrazgo, where Teruel and Castellón meet, the land rises above fourteen hundred metres into a bleak, beautiful plateau of pasture, pine and limestone. Mosqueruela, on the Aragonese side, is one of the highest villages in the area, and Vilafranca, on the Valencian side, sits in a valley below. The Barranco de Gibert cuts into the hills between them, close also to La Iglesuela del Cid, and its second shelter holds prehistoric paintings.
Read the complete Barranco de Gibert II write-up.
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about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco de Gibert II. Next is Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d.
The Guadalope river cuts a deep canyon through the limestone of the Maestrazgo in eastern Teruel, and the Abrigo del Arenal de la Fonseca lies in this wild country near the hamlet of Ladruñán, between the villages of Castellote and Cantavieja. It is one of the important rock-art shelters of Aragon, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art, with Levantine paintings of animals and human figures in red pigment on the rock. The setting is spectacular: a narrow gorge with towering cliffs, the river flowing below, and pine and holm oak clinging to the slopes. Access involves a walk, and the paintings are protected by a fence.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d write-up.
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Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d, about halfway. Next is back through Barranco de Gibert II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco de Gibert II write-up.
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back through Barranco de Gibert II sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova Remigia- Abric l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova Remigia- Abric l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova Remigia- Abric l comes up about 275 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Saltadora- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Saltadora- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
La Saltadora- Abric I closes the day.
La Saltadora- Abric I → Cova Remigia- Abric l is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova Remigia- Abric l → Barranco de Gibert II is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco de Gibert II → Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d → back through Barranco de Gibert II is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco de Gibert II → back through Cova Remigia- Abric l is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova Remigia- Abric l → La Saltadora- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.