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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225 km from Oliana to Oliana, about 4 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: Cova del Cogulló, Balma del Pantà and back through Cova del Cogulló. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Where the Segre comes down from the Pyrenees towards the plains of Lleida, it squeezes through a gap at Oliana, held back by a dam and a reservoir that fills the valley above. On the slopes nearby, Roc del Rumbau, also called the Roca dels Moros, the Moors' rock, is a shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the Catalan sites of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The name is a common one in Catalonia and Spain: local people often attributed anything ancient and mysterious to the Moors.
Read the complete Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros write-up.
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Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros is where the day begins. Next is Cova del Cogulló.
Between the plains of Lleida and the first serious mountains of the Pyrenees there is a band of country that most people cross without noticing, and it is a mistake. The Cova del Cogulló lies here, in the hills of the Noguera between Artesa de Segre and the Montsec, a long limestone wall that rises abruptly from the farmland. Rock shelters in these hills carry prehistoric paintings, part of the Mediterranean rock art tradition that runs all along eastern Spain, and the region's churches add a medieval layer, small Romanesque buildings in nearly every village.
Read the complete Cova del Cogulló write-up.
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Cova del Cogulló comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Balma del Pantà.
Camarasa is a small town beneath a big wall of water. The dam across the Noguera Pallaresa, built in the early twentieth century, holds back a long reservoir, the Pantà de Camarasa, in a dry, rocky corner of Lleida where the pre-Pyrenees fall toward the Ebro plain. The cliffs rise steep and ochre above the water, and in the folds of that rock, shelters hold painted scenes from long before there was a dam or even a town. The Balma del Pantà is one of the sites of the Levantine rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean, a tradition listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Balma del Pantà write-up.
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about 109 km into the recorded legs you reach Balma del Pantà. Next is back through Cova del Cogulló.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova del Cogulló write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cova del Cogulló, late in the day. Next is Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros. That is the ride.
Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros → Cova del Cogulló is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova del Cogulló → Balma del Pantà is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Balma del Pantà → back through Cova del Cogulló is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova del Cogulló → Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.