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 378 km round trip from Torre del Compte - roughly 9 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Prop de la Cova Pintada, Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin, Abric d'Ermites I and back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin. The line favours views over speed.
In 1903, a young man from Calaceite named Juan Cabré, who would go on to become one of Spain's pioneering archaeologists, found painted figures of deer and other animals in a rock shelter in the Calapatá ravine, between Calaceite and Cretas. The Roca dels Moros became one of the first sites of Levantine rock art identified in Spain, and it helped open up a whole new field of study. Today it is part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and a visit here is a small pilgrimage to the beginnings of that story.
Read the complete Roca dels moros write-up.
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Roca dels moros is where the day begins. Next is Prop de la Cova Pintada.
The Ports massif rises abruptly at the meeting point of Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia, a tangle of limestone peaks, deep gorges and pine forest that feels surprisingly wild given how close it is to the Ebro delta and the coast. Prop de la Cova Pintada, meaning near the painted cave, sits on its southern side, between Mas de Barberans, Valderrobres and the old city of Tortosa.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the emptiest corners of the Valencian Community, a group of tiny stone villages scattered across rugged limestone mountains in the far north of Castellón, right where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragón meet. The Cova dels Rossegadors, also called the Cova del Polvorí, lies on the edge of this country near Rossell, with Mas de Barberans and Canet lo Roig the other nearby villages.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin. Next is Abric d'Ermites I.
Where Catalonia runs out, the Serra de Godall stands guard over Ulldecona, and in the rock faces under its ridge the oldest residents of the district left their paintings. Ulldecona is the southernmost town in the Tarragona province, a few kilometres from the Valencian border, and the shelters known collectively as Abrics de l'Ermita lie on the hill above the old hermitage. The Levantine paintings here, small and red, are part of the group UNESCO listed in 1998, and they are among the best preserved in Catalonia.
Read the complete Abric d'Ermites I write-up.
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Abric d'Ermites I, about halfway. Next is back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin write-up.
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back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Prop de la Cova Pintada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prop de la Cova Pintada write-up.
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back through Prop de la Cova Pintada comes up about 294 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roca dels moros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roca dels moros write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Roca dels moros closes the day.
Roca dels moros → Prop de la Cova Pintada is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prop de la Cova Pintada → Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → Abric d'Ermites I is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric d'Ermites I → back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Rossegadors o del Polvorin → back through Prop de la Cova Pintada is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Prop de la Cova Pintada → Roca dels moros is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.