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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297 km from Tortosa to Tortosa, about 5 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of Roca dels moros, Els figuerals, Coveta de la Cornisa and back through Els figuerals. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Roca dels moros.
In 1903, a young man from Calaceite named Juan Cabré, who would go on to become one of Spain's pioneering archaeologists, found painted figures of deer and other animals in a rock shelter in the Calapatá ravine, between Calaceite and Cretas. The Roca dels Moros became one of the first sites of Levantine rock art identified in Spain, and it helped open up a whole new field of study. Today it is part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and a visit here is a small pilgrimage to the beginnings of that story.
Read the complete Roca dels moros write-up.
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Roca dels moros comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Els figuerals.
The Matarraña, or Matarranya in Catalan, is the corner of Teruel that tourism brochures like to call Spain's Tuscany, and for once the comparison is not silly. Olive groves and almond orchards climb rolling hills topped by stone villages with church towers, while to the south the limestone wall of the Ports de Beseit rises abruptly, cut by gorges and clear rivers. Near the village of Fuentespalda, a painted shelter called Els Figuerals adds this valley to the long UNESCO roll of Iberian rock art.
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about 107 km into the recorded legs you reach Els figuerals. Next is Coveta de la Cornisa.
Morella is one of the most dramatic towns in Spain: a walled medieval city wrapped around a conical hill, with a castle on the summit and its walls running unbroken around the base. It stands in the mountains of the Ports in the north of Castellón province, at around a thousand metres, and its silhouette, seen from the roads that climb toward it, is unforgettable. The Coveta de la Cornisa, the little cave of the ledge, lies in the hills about four kilometres away.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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Coveta de la Cornisa, about halfway. Next is back through Els figuerals.
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Read the complete Els figuerals write-up.
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back through Els figuerals sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Roca dels moros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roca dels moros write-up.
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back through Roca dels moros comes up about 214 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Prop de la Cova Pintada closes the day.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Roca dels moros is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roca dels moros → Els figuerals is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Els figuerals → Coveta de la Cornisa is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → back through Els figuerals is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Els figuerals → back through Roca dels moros is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roca dels moros → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.