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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383 km from Culla to Culla, about 8 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Cova dels Cavalls, Galeria del Roure, Las Rozas I and Abric del mas de Barberà. 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.
The Maestrat of inland Castellón is a highland of stone: stone villages on hilltops, stone walls running for kilometres across the slopes, stone farmhouses called masos scattered over the plateau. Roca del Senallo is a rock shelter near Culla, Vilafranca and Benassal, one of many painted shelters in this region, and it belongs to the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Maestrat is one of the richest areas for Levantine art, with famous sites in the Valltorta gorge and around Ares and Albocàsser.
Read the complete Roca del Senallo write-up.
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Roca del Senallo is where the day begins. Next is Cova dels Cavalls.
A line of archers closing in on a herd of deer, one animal already wounded and fleeing: the hunting scene in the Cova dels Cavalls is one of the most reproduced images of Spanish prehistoric art, and it sits in the Barranc de la Valltorta, a dry limestone gorge in the Castellón hinterland between Albocàsser and Tírig. The Valltorta shelters, together with nearby Gasulla, form one of the key groups of Levantine rock art, and the Museu de la Valltorta near Tírig runs guided visits to the main shelter and explains the paintings with replicas and finds. Check visiting times at the museum before you set off, because the shelter is only seen with a guide.
Read the complete Cova dels Cavalls write-up.
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Cova dels Cavalls comes up about 30 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 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Galeria del Roure. 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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Las Rozas I, about halfway. 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 sits at 155 km, about halfway. 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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back through Las Rozas I comes up about 244 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 303 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Galeria del Roure. Next is back through Cova dels Cavalls.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Cavalls write-up.
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back through Cova dels Cavalls, late in the day. Next is Roca del Senallo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roca del Senallo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 383 km.
Roca del Senallo → Cova dels Cavalls is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Cavalls → Galeria del Roure is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Galeria del Roure → 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 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → back through Las Rozas I is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Rozas I → back through Galeria del Roure is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Galeria del Roure → back through Cova dels Cavalls is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Cavalls → Roca del Senallo is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.