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 147 km round trip from Montblanc - roughly 3 h 24 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abric de la Serra de la mussara, The and back through Abric de la Serra de la mussara. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Few places in Catalonia carry as much weight as Poblet. The Cistercian monastery was founded in the middle of the twelfth century on land granted by Count Ramon Berenguer IV, and over the following generations it became the royal pantheon of the Crown of Aragon, the place where kings chose to be buried under carved alabaster. It is still a working community of monks, which gives the vast walled complex a quietness that the coach parties never quite manage to break. UNESCO listed it in 1991, and walking through the outer gates, past the first enclosure and into the cloister, you feel the scale of medieval monastic power in a way that a textbook never conveys.
Read the complete Poblet Monastery write-up.
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Poblet Monastery is where the day begins. Next is Abric de la Serra de la mussara.
Climb out of Reus on a clear morning and the Serra de la Mussara rises ahead like a wall, a limestone escarpment that holds up the edge of the Prades plateau and drops steeply to the plain of the Camp de Tarragona. The rock shelters along this cliff line, close to the village of Vilaplana, are part of the prehistoric painted landscape of eastern Spain. The best reason to stop, though, is the view: on a good day you look straight down over hazelnut orchards and olive groves to Reus, Tarragona and the sea.
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Abric de la Serra de la mussara comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is The.
Inside a plain-looking farmhouse building is a domed hall from the fourth century, its cupola covered in mosaics of hunting scenes, biblical stories and figures that may represent the imperial family. Some scholars believe it was built as a mausoleum for Constans, son of Constantine the Great, who was killed in 350; others are not so sure, and the debate is part of the fun. The site belongs to the UNESCO listing for the Roman town of Tarraco.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach The. Next is back through Abric de la Serra de la mussara.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Serra de la mussara write-up.
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back through Abric de la Serra de la mussara, late in the day. Next is Poblet Monastery.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Poblet Monastery write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Poblet Monastery. That is the ride.
Poblet Monastery → Abric de la Serra de la mussara is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Serra de la mussara → The is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The → back through Abric de la Serra de la mussara is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Serra de la mussara → Poblet Monastery is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.