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 Alfarràs it runs 411 km to Alfarràs; allow about 6 h 59 of riding. The stops in between: Cova del Tabac, Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros, Abric de la Vall d'Ingla and back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The plain of Lleida is one of the great orchards of Spain, a flat, fertile basin of peach, pear and apple trees, irrigated by canals drawn from the Segre. Alfarràs, Algerri and Almenar are villages in this agricultural world, set among fields and ditches on the edge of Catalonia, where the green plain begins to rise towards the dry hills of the Montsec to the north. In spring the orchards bloom in pink and white, and in late summer the fruit lorries crowd the roads. It is not dramatic scenery, but it is a landscape built by water, and the canals, including the long Canal d'Urgell and the canal of Aragon and Catalonia, are the reason it exists.
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Monderes is where the day begins. Next is Cova del Tabac.
Above the village of Camarasa, where the Segre comes out of the pre-Pyrenean hills onto the plain of Lleida, a cave in the limestone holds some of the most interesting rock paintings in Catalonia. The Cova del Tabac, the tobacco cave, is a wide shelter with schematic paintings, simplified human figures, animals and symbols in red, and it is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art on the Iberian Peninsula. A short walk leads up from the road to the shelter, which also offers a fine view over the valley, and on a clear day the Pyrenees rise white on the northern horizon.
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Cova del Tabac comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros.
Where the Segre comes down from the Pyrenees towards the plains of Lleida, it squeezes through a gap at Oliana, held back by a dam and a reservoir that fills the valley above. On the slopes nearby, Roc del Rumbau, also called the Roca dels Moros, the Moors' rock, is a shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the Catalan sites of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The name is a common one in Catalonia and Spain: local people often attributed anything ancient and mysterious to the Moors.
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about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros. Next is Abric de la Vall d'Ingla.
The Cerdanya is a high, wide, sunny valley in the eastern Pyrenees, shared between Catalonia and France, and its southern wall is the long limestone barrier of the Serra del Cadí. The Vall d'Ingla cuts into that wall just above Bellver de Cerdanya and the neighbouring village of Éller, and the rock shelter there is one of the archaeological traces of people who used these valleys long before towns and borders. You are inside the Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park, a protected area of pine forest, cliffs and high pasture.
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Abric de la Vall d'Ingla, about halfway. Next is back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros.
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Read the complete Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros write-up.
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back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros sits at 204 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova del Tabac.
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Read the complete Cova del Tabac write-up.
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back through Cova del Tabac comes up about 357 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monderes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monderes write-up.
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Monderes closes the day.
Monderes → Cova del Tabac is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova del Tabac → Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros → Abric de la Vall d'Ingla is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric de la Vall d'Ingla → back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros → back through Cova del Tabac is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova del Tabac → Monderes is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.