Why this ride
A 323 km round trip from Mequinensa / Mequinenza - roughly 6 h 05 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cueva de mas del Abogat, Abric d'Ermites VI and back through Cueva de mas del Abogat.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Roca de marta and Abric d'Ermites VI
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 323 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 05
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Roca de marta
Mequinenza lies where the Segre river meets the Ebro, and the town you see today is not the one that stood here before the 1960s. When a dam was built downstream on the Ebro, the old town was flooded by the reservoir, known as the Mar de Aragón, and its people moved to a new settlement on higher ground. The old castle still sits above the water, and the reservoir stretches in long fingers between bare, ochre hills. It is a landscape both beautiful and a little melancholy, and the lake is famous among anglers for enormous catfish.
Read the complete Roca de marta write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Roca de marta is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de mas del Abogat.
2. Cueva de mas del Abogat
Calaceite is the kind of village that makes you slow down without being asked: honey-coloured stone, arcaded squares, a big baroque church and grand old houses with carved doorways, all perched on a ridge in the Matarraña, the corner of Teruel where Aragón meets Catalonia and Valencia. A few kilometres from it lies the Cueva de Mas del Abogat, one of the painted rock shelters that belong to the UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula. As with its sisters across eastern Spain, the paintings are small and often hard to read; the setting is what you take away.
Read the complete Cueva de mas del Abogat write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cueva de mas del Abogat comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric d'Ermites VI.
3. Abric d'Ermites VI
Ulldecona sits at the foot of the Serra de Godall, in the southern tip of Catalonia, close to the border with Valencia and a short distance from the Ebro delta. The town is an old one, set among olive groves that produce a good oil, and above it stands the hermitage of La Pietat, with long views to the sea. The Abric d'Ermites VI is one of the rock shelters of the Ermites group, painted in the Levantine style with small red figures of hunters, and part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art inscribed by UNESCO in 1998. The shelters lie in the cliffs of the Godall range, and access is by foot with regulations to protect the paintings.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites VI write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric d'Ermites VI. Next is back through Cueva de mas del Abogat.
4. back through Cueva de mas del Abogat
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de mas del Abogat write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Cueva de mas del Abogat, late in the day. Next is Roca de marta.
5. Roca de marta
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roca de marta write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Roca de marta. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Roca de marta to Cueva de mas del Abogat
Roca de marta → Cueva de mas del Abogat is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de mas del Abogat to Abric d'Ermites VI
Cueva de mas del Abogat → Abric d'Ermites VI is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric d'Ermites VI to back through Cueva de mas del Abogat
Abric d'Ermites VI → back through Cueva de mas del Abogat is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de mas del Abogat to Roca de marta
back through Cueva de mas del Abogat → Roca de marta is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.