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 411 km round trip from Ares del Maestre - roughly 7 h 58 in the saddle. On the way it passes Coveta de la Cornisa, Las Rozas I, Abric del mas de Barberà and Los Estrechos I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 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.
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Racó Gasparo is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Rozas I.
The upper valley of the Guadalope in Teruel is a place where limestone has been folded, cut and carved into an extraordinary array of shapes: cliffs, gorges, natural arches and pinnacles, with the river winding between them in places of startling green. Near Castellote, the painted shelter labelled Las Rozas I is one of the sites of Levantine rock art listed by UNESCO. Its figures are faint and fragile, but they speak of people who hunted deer and ibex in these same valleys thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Las Rozas I write-up.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Rozas I. Next is Abric del mas de Barberà.
Alcañiz is the capital of the Bajo Aragón, a region of olive groves, cereal fields and dry hills crossed by the Guadalope river in the south-east of Aragón. The town is crowned by a castle built for the Order of Calatrava, now a parador, and its main square, with a Gothic loggia and the town hall, is one of the finest in the region. The shelter of the Mas de Barberà lies in the hills just outside town, toward Castelserás and Calanda.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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Abric del mas de Barberà, about halfway. Next is Los Estrechos I.
Los Estrechos means the narrows, and the name fits the country around Albalate del Arzobispo, in the Bajo Aragón, where the Martín river squeezes through limestone gorges on its way to the Ebro. The landscape is dry and open, a mixture of olive groves, almond terraces and low scrub, with sudden canyons and cliffs. The Martín valley is protected as a cultural park, because it holds a remarkable series of rock shelters with Levantine and Schematic paintings, some of which belong to the Mediterranean-arc group that UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Los Estrechos I write-up.
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Los Estrechos I sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas de Barberà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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back through Abric del mas de Barberà comes up about 260 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Las Rozas I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Rozas I write-up.
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about 308 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Las Rozas I. Next is back through Coveta de la Cornisa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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back through Coveta de la Cornisa, late in the day. Next is Racó Gasparo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó Gasparo write-up.
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The route ends here after 411 km.
Racó Gasparo → Coveta de la Cornisa is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → Las Rozas I is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Rozas I → Abric del mas de Barberà is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → Los Estrechos I is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Estrechos I → back through Abric del mas de Barberà is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà → back through Las Rozas I is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Rozas I → back through Coveta de la Cornisa is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta de la Cornisa → Racó Gasparo is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.