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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From Ares del Maestre it runs 220 km to Ares del Maestre; allow about 4 h 59 of riding. On the way it passes Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla, Cova de Gargán and back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Racó Gasparo is where the day begins. Next is Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla.
This is high Maestrat country, where Castellón's mountains roll into Teruel's, and the small rock shelter called the Covatina del Tossalet del Mas de la Rambla belongs to a family of sites that UNESCO lists together as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Under overhangs like this one, hunters and early farmers painted small, lively figures in red and black: archers in mid-stride, deer and ibex, scenes of hunting and gathering. The style, called Levantine art, is unusual for its movement and its storytelling, and many of the shelters are tiny, fragile and kept behind fences. Access is often by guided visit only, so check with the local tourist office before you count on seeing the paintings.
Read the complete Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla write-up.
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Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla comes up about 23 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 109 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de Gargán. Next is back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla, 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 → Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla → Cova de Gargán is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de Gargán → back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Covatina del Tossalet del mas de !a Rambla → Racó Gasparo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.