CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Villafranca del Cid it runs 416 km to Villafranca del Cid; allow about 8 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of Abric de la Tenalla, Val del Charco del Agua Amarga and back through Abric de la Tenalla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Racó means corner in Valencian, and this really is a corner: a fold in the limestone hills between Benassal, Culla and Vilafranca, in the interior of Castellón where the coast's crowds feel a continent away. The rock shelter here is one of the many small sites of Levantine prehistoric painting that together make up a UNESCO World Heritage listing, and like most of them it is modest, fenced and best seen with a local guide. What lingers is less the painting than the idea of hunters choosing this exact overhang, with water close by and a view down the valley, and leaving their mark on it.
Read the complete Racó de Nando write-up.
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Racó de Nando is where the day begins. Next is Abric de la Tenalla.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the wildest corners of the Valencian region, a cluster of tiny villages in the mountains where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet, and the Abric de la Tenalla lies on its southeastern edge, near Rosell. It is one of the many rock shelters in this area with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the nearby Serra de Godall and the Ulldecona shelters to the east are among the most important sites in Catalonia. The landscape is dramatic: limestone cliffs, deep gorges, pine and holm oak forests, and abandoned terraces where shepherds once grazed their flocks.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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Abric de la Tenalla comes up 64 km in. Next is Val del Charco del Agua Amarga.
Around ten kilometres from Alcañiz, in a dry ravine among olive groves and limestone ledges, a rock shelter holds one of the most celebrated scenes of Levantine rock art in Spain. The paintings at Val del Charco del Agua Amarga show archers in motion, hunting and perhaps fighting, their thin bodies drawn with a few confident strokes in red. Many experts consider it one of the finest examples in the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art, and seeing it, even protected behind a fence, gives a real jolt of connection to people who lived here several thousand years ago.
Read the complete Val del Charco del Agua Amarga write-up.
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127 km in you reach Val del Charco del Agua Amarga. Next is back through Abric de la Tenalla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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back through Abric de la Tenalla, late in the day. Next is Racó de Nando.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó de Nando write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Racó de Nando. That is the ride.
Racó de Nando → Abric de la Tenalla is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric de la Tenalla → Val del Charco del Agua Amarga is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Val del Charco del Agua Amarga → back through Abric de la Tenalla is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Tenalla → Racó de Nando is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.