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 257 km round trip from Ares del Maestre - roughly 5 h 37 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera, Galeria del Roure, Abric de la Tenalla and back through Galeria del Roure. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Truffles grow under the oaks of the Maestrat. The black truffle, Tuber melanosporum, favours the cool, limestone soils of the high plateaus of Castellón, Teruel and Tarragona, and in recent decades farmers have planted oak plantations to cultivate it, hoping for a crop that sells for a high price in winter. Dogs are trained to find it, . The Racó Molero, a ravine corner four or five kilometres from Benassal, is in the oak country, and the woods around it hold a mixture of holm oak, pine and juniper.
Read the complete Racó molero write-up.
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Racó molero is where the day begins. Next is Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera.
The Maestrat is a quiet corner of Castellón, a country of dry-stone walls, almond groves and villages built on knolls, and the ravines that cut through it hide shelters painted with scenes from the Mesolithic and Neolithic. The Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera belongs to the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, a tradition inscribed by UNESCO in 1998, and it lies in the hills above Albocàsser, near the little towns of Catí and Les Coves de Vinromà. The best-known cluster, the Valltorta gorge, lies not far away, with a museum at Tírig that explains the art and gives access to some sites.
Read the complete Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera write-up.
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Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Galeria del Roure.
Morella rises from the plateau of the Ports like something from a dream: a walled town wrapped around a rocky hill, crowned by a castle, with the Gothic basilica of Santa María la Mayor in the middle, and two kilometres of medieval walls with towers and gates running around the base. It is one of the most impressive historic towns in Spain, and the Galeria del Roure, a rock shelter about four kilometres away, is part of the cluster of prehistoric sites around Morella, including Morella la Vella, one of the important rock-art sites of the Valencian region, all part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The shelters are small and some are protected, so ask at the tourist office in town about visits.
Read the complete Galeria del Roure write-up.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Galeria del Roure. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Galeria del Roure.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Galeria del Roure write-up.
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back through Galeria del Roure sits at 127 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera comes up about 221 km into the recorded legs. Next is Racó molero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó molero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Racó molero closes the day.
Racó molero → Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera → Galeria del Roure is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Galeria del Roure → Abric de la Tenalla is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Tenalla → back through Galeria del Roure is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Galeria del Roure → back through Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Barranc d'en Cabrera → Racó molero is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.