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 446 km round trip from Montblanc - roughly 10 h 17 in the saddle. The stops in between: Paleochristian cemetery, Balma d'En Roc, Prop de la Cova Pintada and Abric d'Ermites VI. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Montblanc is a walled town with a dragon, and that alone makes it worth the detour. The thirteenth-century and fourteenth-century ramparts still circle the old centre almost intact, towers and gates and all, and the town has long claimed the legend of Saint George and the dragon as its own, which is why Catalans exchange roses and books on Sant Jordi in April. It sits in the Conca de Barberà, a basin of vineyards and fields surrounded by wooded ranges, and Mas d'En Carles lies in the hills to the south-east, on the edge of the Prades mountains.
Read the complete Mas d'En Carles write-up.
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Mas d'En Carles is where the day begins. Next is Paleochristian cemetery.
When the Roman city of Tarraco converted to Christianity, its people began burying their dead beside the Francolí river, west of the town, and the necropolis that grew up there over the fourth and fifth centuries is now one of the most important early Christian burial sites in the western Mediterranean. Hundreds of tombs were found, from simple graves to carved marble sarcophagi, along with remains of a basilica. Tradition links the site with Saint Fructuosus, the bishop of Tarraco burned in the amphitheatre in the year 259 along with two deacons.
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Paleochristian cemetery comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Balma d'En Roc.
Inland from the Costa Daurada, the Serra de Llaberia rises abruptly above the coastal plain, a jagged wall of limestone separating the sea from the valley of the Ebro. The rock shelter of Balma d'En Roc lies in this rough country, part of the Levantine rock art inscribed by UNESCO, and like most of its kind it is small, fragile and best visited with local guidance. The nearest villages are scattered: Ginestar on the Ebro, El Perelló on the coastal side, and Mont-roig del Camp to the north-east.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Balma d'En Roc. Next is Prop de la Cova Pintada.
The Ports massif rises abruptly at the meeting point of Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia, a tangle of limestone peaks, deep gorges and pine forest that feels surprisingly wild given how close it is to the Ebro delta and the coast. Prop de la Cova Pintada, meaning near the painted cave, sits on its southern side, between Mas de Barberans, Valderrobres and the old city of Tortosa.
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Prop de la Cova Pintada, about halfway. Next is Abric d'Ermites VI.
Ulldecona sits at the foot of the Serra de Godall, in the southern tip of Catalonia, close to the border with Valencia and a short distance from the Ebro delta. The town is an old one, set among olive groves that produce a good oil, and above it stands the hermitage of La Pietat, with long views to the sea. The Abric d'Ermites VI is one of the rock shelters of the Ermites group, painted in the Levantine style with small red figures of hunters, and part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art inscribed by UNESCO in 1998. The shelters lie in the cliffs of the Godall range, and access is by foot with regulations to protect the paintings.
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Abric d'Ermites VI sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Prop de la Cova Pintada.
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Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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back through Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 266 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Balma d'En Roc.
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Read the complete Balma d'En Roc write-up.
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about 349 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Balma d'En Roc. Next is back through Paleochristian cemetery.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paleochristian cemetery write-up.
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back through Paleochristian cemetery, late in the day. Next is Mas d'En Carles.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mas d'En Carles write-up.
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The route ends here after 446 km.
Mas d'En Carles → Paleochristian cemetery is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Paleochristian cemetery → Balma d'En Roc is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Balma d'En Roc → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Abric d'Ermites VI is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric d'Ermites VI → back through Prop de la Cova Pintada is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada → back through Balma d'En Roc is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Balma d'En Roc → back through Paleochristian cemetery is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Paleochristian cemetery → Mas d'En Carles is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.