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 Bellprat it runs 194 km to Bellprat; allow about 3 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Cova dels Segarulls, Triumphal Arch of Berá, Roman walls and back through Triumphal Arch of Berá. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Roca Roja, the red rock, is a fitting name for this corner of inland Catalonia, where sandstone and conglomerate cliffs glow rust-coloured in the evening light above pine forest and small terraced fields. The point lies in the hills between Querol and Mediona, where the comarques of Alt Camp, Alt Penedès and Anoia meet, a rugged, thinly populated upland that most people speed past on the motorway between Barcelona and Lleida without realising it exists.
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Roca Roja is where the day begins. Next is Cova dels Segarulls.
The vineyards of the Penedès roll out in every direction from Vilafranca, and the Cova dels Segarulls lies among them, a few kilometres outside the town in the low hills toward the coastal range.
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Cova dels Segarulls comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Triumphal Arch of Berá.
For centuries traffic on the main coastal road of Catalonia drove straight through a Roman triumphal arch. The Arc de Berà stands on the line of the Via Augusta, the great Roman road from the Pyrenees to Cádiz, about twenty kilometres northeast of Tarragona, and until the road was diverted around it in the late twentieth century, cars and trucks passed under its single span. It was built at the end of the first century BC, and an inscription records that it was erected according to the will of Lucius Licinius Sura, a figure whose identity historians still discuss. It is part of the UNESCO listing for the Roman remains of Tarraco.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Triumphal Arch of Berá. Next is Roman walls.
The Romans did not take long to decide that Tarragona was worth fortifying. Scipio's army landed here in 218 BC during the war against Carthage, and in time the settlement of Tarraco became the capital of the Roman province of Hispania Citerior and later of Tarraconensis, and one of the largest cities in Roman Spain. Its walls started as a Republican fortification, with huge irregular blocks at the base, the so-called cyclopean masonry, which were later heightened and rebuilt in Roman and later periods. A good stretch survives in the Passeig Arqueològic, where you can walk along the top.
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Roman walls, about halfway. Next is back through Triumphal Arch of Berá.
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back through Triumphal Arch of Berá sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova dels Segarulls.
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Read the complete Cova dels Segarulls write-up.
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back through Cova dels Segarulls comes up about 154 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roca Roja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roca Roja write-up.
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Roca Roja closes the day.
Roca Roja → Cova dels Segarulls is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Segarulls → Triumphal Arch of Berá is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Triumphal Arch of Berá → Roman walls is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roman walls → back through Triumphal Arch of Berá is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Triumphal Arch of Berá → back through Cova dels Segarulls is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Segarulls → Roca Roja is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.