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 156 km round trip from Ares del Maestre - roughly 3 h 38 in the saddle. On the way it passes mas d'en Badenes, Cova de Gargán and back through mas d'en Badenes. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is mas d'en Badenes.
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 comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de Gargán.
High in the interior of Castellón, where the coastal orange groves are long forgotten and the land climbs toward the Penyagolosa massif, the shelter known as Cova de Gargán sits in a country of limestone ledges, holm oak and dry-stone terraces. Vistabella del Maestrazgo is the nearest village, a handful of kilometres away on its high plateau, with Villahermosa del Río down in its valley to the other side and Lucena del Cid a little further south. It is quiet up here in a way that the coast never is.
Read the complete Cova de Gargán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de Gargán. Next is back through mas d'en Badenes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete mas d'en Badenes write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through mas d'en Badenes, late in the day. Next is molí Darrer- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete molí Darrer- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at molí Darrer- Abric I. That is the ride.
molí Darrer- Abric I → mas d'en Badenes is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mas d'en Badenes → Cova de Gargán is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de Gargán → back through mas d'en Badenes is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through mas d'en Badenes → molí Darrer- Abric I is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.