CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Villafranca del Cid it runs 227 km to Villafranca del Cid; allow about 4 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of molí Darrer- Abric I, Centelles- Abric I, molí Darrer- Abric II and Centelles- Abric II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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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mas d'en Badenes 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 16 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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33 km in you reach Centelles- Abric I. Next is molí Darrer- Abric II.
A molí is a mill, and the one that lends its name to this shelter was presumably a water mill on one of the small streams that trickle through the hills around Benassal, in the high interior of Castellón province. Molí Darrer, the Last Mill, was probably the last one before the water ran out or the valley ended, and the shelter here, Abric II, lies about nine kilometres from the town. It carries paintings of the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and is linked to a neighbouring shelter at Mas d'en Badenes and to the Centelles site, which are on the same ride.
Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric II write-up.
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molí Darrer- Abric II, about halfway. Next is Centelles- Abric II.
Three or four shelters bear the name Centelles, and on a map they all collapse into one dot, which says something about how these places are catalogued: by the ravine, the farm and the order in which a surveyor stumbled across them. The Centelles of this ride lies in the upland country between Catí and Albocàsser, where the Maestrat plateau is broad, quiet and dry, and where the main event of the day is the sheep crossing the road.
Read the complete Centelles- Abric II write-up.
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Centelles- Abric II sits at 66 km, about halfway. Next is back through molí Darrer- Abric II.
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Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric II write-up.
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back through molí Darrer- Abric II comes up 82 km in. Next is back through Centelles- Abric I.
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Read the complete Centelles- Abric I write-up.
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98 km in you reach back through 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 mas d'en Badenes.
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Read the complete mas d'en Badenes write-up.
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The route ends here after 227 km.
mas d'en Badenes → molí Darrer- Abric I is 16 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 → molí Darrer- Abric II is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molí Darrer- Abric II → Centelles- Abric II is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric II → back through molí Darrer- Abric II is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molí Darrer- Abric II → back through Centelles- Abric I is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → mas d'en Badenes is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.