Why this ride
A 283 km round trip from Mequinensa / Mequinenza - roughly 4 h 44 in the saddle. On the way it passes La Roca dels moros, Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars and back through La Roca dels moros.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
mas de Patriciel I and Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 283 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 44
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. mas de Patriciel I
Where the Ebro and the Segre meet near Mequinenza, the rivers have been dammed into two long reservoirs, and the result is a strange, beautiful landscape of blue water filling deep valleys among dry, terraced hills. The rock shelters of Mas de Patriciel lie in the hills between Mequinenza, Nonaspe and Fayón, part of the network of painted sites that UNESCO listed as the Mediterranean rock art of Iberia.
Read the complete mas de Patriciel I write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
mas de Patriciel I is where the day begins. Next is La Roca dels moros.
2. La Roca dels moros
El Cogul is a village of a few dozen houses in Les Garrigues, the low, stony plateau of western Catalonia where the whole landscape seems to be one big olive grove. Just outside it, a wall of rock above a small valley holds one of the most important prehistoric paintings in the country. The shelter is known as the Roca dels Moros, the Moors' Rock, which is simply the Catalan habit of attributing anything old and mysterious to the Moors, and it was brought to scientific attention in the early twentieth century by a local priest.
Read the complete La Roca dels moros write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
La Roca dels moros comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars.
3. Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars
Os de Balaguer is a small village on the edge of the pre-Pyrenean hills in the Noguera district of Lleida, and the Cova dels Vilasos, also known as the Cova dels Vilars, lies just outside it. The site is one of the painted rock shelters of Catalonia counted within the Mediterranean rock art group protected by UNESCO, and its figures are small and reddish, drawn by people who lived from hunting and gathering in what was then a far wilder landscape. Like its neighbours it is protected and rarely dramatic at first sight; give your eyes a moment in the shade and the shapes begin to come out of the stone.
Read the complete Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars. Next is back through La Roca dels moros.
4. back through La Roca dels moros
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Roca dels moros write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through La Roca dels moros, late in the day. Next is mas de Patriciel I.
5. mas de Patriciel I
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete mas de Patriciel I write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at mas de Patriciel I. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
mas de Patriciel I to La Roca dels moros
mas de Patriciel I → La Roca dels moros is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Roca dels moros to Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars
La Roca dels moros → Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars to back through La Roca dels moros
Cova dels Vilasos o dels Vilars → back through La Roca dels moros is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Roca dels moros to mas de Patriciel I
back through La Roca dels moros → mas de Patriciel I is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
More motorcycle rides nearby
- mas de Torres and The · 444 km
- Valmayor IV and Cova del Tabac · 265 km