Why this ride
305 km from Alfarràs to Alfarràs, about 5 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of La Roca dels moros, mas de Patriciel I and back through La Roca dels moros.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Monderes and mas de Patriciel I
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 305 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 01
- 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.
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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. Monderes
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.
Read the complete Monderes write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Monderes 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 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is mas de Patriciel I.
3. 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
about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach mas de Patriciel I. 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 Monderes.
5. Monderes
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monderes write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Monderes. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Monderes to La Roca dels moros
Monderes → La Roca dels moros is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Roca dels moros to mas de Patriciel I
La Roca dels moros → mas de Patriciel I is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mas de Patriciel I to back through La Roca dels moros
mas de Patriciel I → back through La Roca dels moros is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Roca dels moros to Monderes
back through La Roca dels moros → Monderes is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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