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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From Torre del Compte it runs 313 km to Torre del Compte; allow about 5 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Camino de la Cova Plana l, Albi II / Balma dels Punts and back through Camino de la Cova Plana l. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Camino de la Cova Plana l.
Where the Segre and the Cinca rivers meet the Ebro, the land opens out into a dry, tawny basin that feels far from the sea. Mequinenza sits at the heart of it, a small town of about 2,500 people that has a story unlike any other on the Ebro. The old town was flooded in the 1960s when the Ribarroja dam created the Mar de Aragón, a huge reservoir, and the inhabitants were moved to a new town built higher up. The writer Jesús Moncada, born here, wrote about the vanished town in his novel Camino de sirga, and the loss still colours the way people talk about the place.
Read the complete Camino de la Cova Plana l write-up.
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Camino de la Cova Plana l comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Albi II / Balma dels Punts.
L'Albi is a small village on a hill in Les Garrigues, the dry, olive-covered district southeast of Lleida, and its name appears in the archaeological record thanks to rock shelters in the area, including the Balma dels Punts, the shelter of the dots. The name suggests schematic paintings in the form of dots and lines, typical of the later phase of prehistoric art in the region, and the site is part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The shelters are small and fragile, and some can only be visited with a guide, so check with the town hall or a local interpretation centre before heading out.
Read the complete Albi II / Balma dels Punts write-up.
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about 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Albi II / Balma dels Punts. Next is back through Camino de la Cova Plana l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Camino de la Cova Plana l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Camino de la Cova Plana l, late in the day. 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.
Back at Roca dels moros. That is the ride.
Roca dels moros → Camino de la Cova Plana l is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Camino de la Cova Plana l → Albi II / Balma dels Punts is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albi II / Balma dels Punts → back through Camino de la Cova Plana l is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Camino de la Cova Plana l → Roca dels moros is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.