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 366 km round trip from Ares del Maestre - roughly 8 h 45 in the saddle. The stops in between: Valmayor V, Abrigo del Plano del Pulido and back through Valmayor V. 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.
Racó means corner in Valencian, and Racó Gasparo is a corner of the hills, a little fold of land tucked away from the road, about five kilometres from Benassal. The country here is the high interior of Castellón, near the borders of Aragon, where the land lifts toward Els Ports de Morella and the whole region feels more like the Pyrenees foothills than the Mediterranean coast. Villages with a few hundred people, stone houses and a medieval castle on a rock are the norm, and Culla, a small village nearby, is crowned by one of the most dramatic of them.
Read the complete Racó Gasparo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Racó Gasparo is where the day begins. Next is Valmayor V.
The Matarraña, in the far east of Teruel province, is often called the Tuscany of Aragon, and for once the comparison holds. Stone villages crown hilltops above olive groves and vineyards, rivers run clear through limestone gorges, and the light in the evening is honey-coloured. Valmayor is a ravine in the hills here, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and the Catalan border, and its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. As elsewhere, they are protected, and visits are best arranged through local tourist offices.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
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Valmayor V comes up about 99 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Plano del Pulido.
South of Caspe, the lower Aragón country is a dry, sculpted landscape of ochre hills, flat-topped mesas and gullies cut into soft sandstone, with almond and olive groves clinging to the valley floors. In these sandstone outcrops, prehistoric people found shelter and left paintings, and the Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is one of the rock shelters of the area included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The painted figures, in the reddish tones of Levantine art, are small and faded, and as at most of these sites, access is controlled and visits may need to be arranged in advance.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Plano del Pulido. Next is back through Valmayor V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Valmayor V, late in the day. Next is Racó Gasparo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó Gasparo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Racó Gasparo. That is the ride.
Racó Gasparo → Valmayor V is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valmayor V → Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Plano del Pulido → back through Valmayor V is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Valmayor V → Racó Gasparo is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.