Why this ride
From Juneda it runs 323 km to Juneda; allow about 4 h 59 of riding. The stops in between: Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso, Aqueduct, Abric de Can Castellvi and back through Aqueduct. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Roques Guàrdies II and Abric de Can Castellvi
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 323 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 59
- 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. Roques Guàrdies II
Les Garrigues is the dry, stony corner of western Catalonia, south-east of Lleida, a land of low hills, terraced olive groves, almond trees and stone huts, where the light is hard and the summers are hot. Roques Guàrdies II is a rock shelter in these hills near Juneda and Arbeca, with traces of prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage site of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Roques Guàrdies II write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Roques Guàrdies II is where the day begins. Next is Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso.
2. Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso
Behind the Conca de Barberà, where the Catalan plain begins to lift towards the Serra de Prades, a small valley holds the monastery of Poblet, one of the largest and best-preserved Cistercian abbeys in Europe. The Mas d'en Ramon d'en Besso is a farmhouse a few kilometres from Montblanc and from the village of Vimbodí, in wooded country of holm oak, pine and dry-stone terraces with the red cliffs of the Roques Guàrdies nearby.
Read the complete Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Aqueduct.
3. Aqueduct
The Pont del Diable, the Devil's Bridge, is not a bridge for people. It is a Roman aqueduct, a tall, two-tiered stone arcade that carried water to Tarraco, modern Tarragona, from the Francolí river, about fifteen kilometres away. It spans a small valley near the road to Constantí, two hundred metres long and about twenty-seven metres high at its tallest point, built of big dressed stones without mortar, and it has stood for roughly two thousand years. UNESCO included it in the Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco in 2000.
Read the complete Aqueduct write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 120 km into the recorded legs you reach Aqueduct. Next is Abric de Can Castellvi.
4. Abric de Can Castellví
The Penedès is wine country, and the landscape around Vilafranca del Penedès is a patchwork of vineyards rolling away toward the Montserrat massif in the north and the limestone hills of the Garraf in the south. Abric de Can Castellví is a small rock shelter in this landscape, one of the many sites of Levantine and schematic rock art scattered across Catalonia and included in the UNESCO serial site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like many such sites, it is modest in appearance, a hollow in the rock where faint painted figures have survived thousands of years, and access is often limited to protect the art.
Read the complete Abric de Can Castellvi write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abric de Can Castellvi, about halfway. Next is back through Aqueduct.
5. back through Aqueduct
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Aqueduct write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Aqueduct sits at 171 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso.
6. back through Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso comes up about 273 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roques Guàrdies II.
7. Roques Guàrdies II
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roques Guàrdies II write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Roques Guàrdies II closes the day.
Leg by leg
Roques Guàrdies II to Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso
Roques Guàrdies II → Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso to Aqueduct
Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso → Aqueduct is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Aqueduct to Abric de Can Castellvi
Aqueduct → Abric de Can Castellvi is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Can Castellví to back through Aqueduct
Abric de Can Castellví → back through Aqueduct is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Aqueduct to back through Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso
back through Aqueduct → back through Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso to Roques Guàrdies II
back through Mas d'En Ramon d'en Besso → Roques Guàrdies II is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.