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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317 km from Tortosa to Tortosa, about 7 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Abric mas de la Roca, Cova de Gargán and back through Abric mas de la Roca. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Ports massif rises abruptly at the meeting point of Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia, a tangle of limestone peaks, deep gorges and pine forest that feels surprisingly wild given how close it is to the Ebro delta and the coast. Prop de la Cova Pintada, meaning near the painted cave, sits on its southern side, between Mas de Barberans, Valderrobres and the old city of Tortosa.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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Prop de la Cova Pintada is where the day begins. Next is Abric mas de la Roca.
Northern Castellón is a hard, empty, beautiful part of Valencian Spain, a country of limestone ridges and terraced slopes some thirty kilometres back from the Mediterranean, and the Abric Mas de la Roca belongs to it, about six kilometres from the village of Xert, whose name is spelled Chert in Catalan and Valencian. Xert has fewer than a thousand people, Canet lo Roig and Catí are similar, and everything here is small and old.
Read the complete Abric mas de la Roca write-up.
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Abric mas de la Roca comes up about 80 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.
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about 158 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de Gargán. Next is back through Abric mas de la Roca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric mas de la Roca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric mas de la Roca, late in the day. Next is Prop de la Cova Pintada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Prop de la Cova Pintada. That is the ride.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Abric mas de la Roca is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric mas de la Roca → Cova de Gargán is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de Gargán → back through Abric mas de la Roca is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric mas de la Roca → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.