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 487 km round trip from Constantí - roughly 8 h 15 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abric de Gallicant, Roques Guàrdies II, Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume and Mallata C. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Inside a plain-looking farmhouse building is a domed hall from the fourth century, its cupola covered in mosaics of hunting scenes, biblical stories and figures that may represent the imperial family. Some scholars believe it was built as a mausoleum for Constans, son of Constantine the Great, who was killed in 350; others are not so sure, and the debate is part of the fun. The site belongs to the UNESCO listing for the Roman town of Tarraco.
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The is where the day begins. Next is Abric de Gallicant.
Alforja is a village on the southern edge of the Prades mountains, where the plain of the Camp de Tarragona meets the steep slopes of the Serra de l'Argentera and the Serra de la Mussara. The Abric de Gallicant lies in the hills near Alforja, Vilaplana and Ulldemolins, and it is one of the many prehistoric shelters in these mountains that form part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The name means rooster's song, a poetic touch typical of Catalan place names. The paintings in this area are generally schematic, with simple figures and geometric shapes, and many shelters are protected by fences.
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Abric de Gallicant comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 107 km into the recorded legs you reach Roques Guàrdies II. Next is Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume.
Mequinenza had to move. In the 1960s and 1970s, two dams built on the Ebro created a huge reservoir known as the Mar de Aragón, and the old town at the meeting of the Ebro and the Segre was abandoned and largely demolished, its people resettled in a new town above. The story is told in the town's museums and in the novels of Jesús Moncada, who grew up in the old Mequinenza. In a ravine nearby, the Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume holds prehistoric paintings, part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin.
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Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume, about halfway. Next is Mallata C.
Ontiñena is a small farming village on the Alcanadre river, at the edge of the Monegros, the dry, wind-scoured steppe of central Aragón. Out in the ravines around it, prehistoric people left painted figures in rock shelters, among them the site labelled Mallata C, one of the many small components of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The paintings are small, simple and best seen with a local guide, and the walk there crosses a landscape that seems built for epic films: gypsum hills, eroded gullies and wide skies.
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Mallata C sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume.
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back through Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume comes up about 317 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Roques Guàrdies II.
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about 378 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Roques Guàrdies II. Next is back through Abric de Gallicant.
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back through Abric de Gallicant, late in the day. Next is The.
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The route ends here after 487 km.
The → Abric de Gallicant is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Gallicant → Roques Guàrdies II is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roques Guàrdies II → Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume → Mallata C is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mallata C → back through Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume → back through Roques Guàrdies II is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roques Guàrdies II → back through Abric de Gallicant is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Gallicant → The is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.