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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From Montblanc it runs 496 km to Montblanc; allow about 10 h 33 of riding. On the way it passes Aqueduct, 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 one of those small Catalan towns that still has its medieval walls, and the Mas d'en Llort label lies a few kilometres from it in the Conca de Barberà, a basin of vineyards and wheat fields ringed by low, scrubby mountains. A mas is a farmhouse, so the spot is probably a rural building or a field track rather than anything with a name on the map, and what you are really riding into is the countryside around it.
Read the complete Mas d'En Llort write-up.
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Mas d'En Llort is where the day begins. Next is Aqueduct.
The Pont del Diable, the Devil's Bridge, is not a bridge for people. It is a Roman aqueduct, a tall, two-tiered stone arcade that carried water to Tarraco, modern Tarragona, from the Francolí river, about fifteen kilometres away. It spans a small valley near the road to Constantí, two hundred metres long and about twenty-seven metres high at its tallest point, built of big dressed stones without mortar, and it has stood for roughly two thousand years. UNESCO included it in the Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco in 2000.
Read the complete Aqueduct write-up.
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Aqueduct comes up about 70 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.
Read the complete Balma d'En Roc write-up.
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about 121 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.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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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.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites VI write-up.
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Abric d'Ermites VI sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Prop de la Cova Pintada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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back through Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 290 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Balma d'En Roc.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Balma d'En Roc write-up.
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about 373 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Balma d'En Roc. Next is back through Aqueduct.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Aqueduct write-up.
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back through Aqueduct, late in the day. Next is Mas d'En Llort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mas d'En Llort write-up.
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The route ends here after 496 km.
Mas d'En Llort → Aqueduct is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Aqueduct → 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 Aqueduct is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Aqueduct → Mas d'En Llort is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.