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 313 km round trip from Tarragona - roughly 4 h 18 in the saddle. On the way it passes Albi II / Balma dels Punts, Camino de la Cova Plana II and back through Albi II / Balma dels Punts. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Wherever you sit in the Roman theatre of Tarragona, you face the sea. The builders carved the seating into the slope of a hill that runs down to the shore, so that the audience looked past the stage toward open water, and the effect on a clear evening is of a stage set whose back wall is the Mediterranean. Only part of the structure survives, its curved terraces partly rebuilt and its stage area cluttered with the foundations of the later buildings that stood on it, and yet the shape of the whole is easy to read. It lies in the lower town, a few hundred metres from the harbour, and is one of the monuments of the Tàrraco ensemble listed by UNESCO in 2000.
Read the complete The Roman Theatre write-up.
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The Roman Theatre is where the day begins. 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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Albi II / Balma dels Punts comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Camino de la Cova Plana II.
Three rivers come together near Mequinenza: the Ebro, flowing in from the west, and the Segre and Cinca, arriving together from the Pyrenees to the north. The meeting point, now swallowed by the reservoirs behind the dams, has always been a strategic place, and the much-restored castle on the hill above the town has watched over it for centuries. The Camino de la Cova Plana is a track in the hills east of town, towards the Catalan border, and the site recorded here is one of the many prehistoric rock shelters scattered across this dry, rugged landscape.
Read the complete Camino de la Cova Plana II write-up.
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about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach Camino de la Cova Plana II. Next is back through Albi II / Balma dels Punts.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Albi II / Balma dels Punts write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Albi II / Balma dels Punts, late in the day. Next is The Roman Theatre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Roman Theatre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The Roman Theatre. That is the ride.
The Roman Theatre → Albi II / Balma dels Punts is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albi II / Balma dels Punts → Camino de la Cova Plana II is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Camino de la Cova Plana II → back through Albi II / Balma dels Punts is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Albi II / Balma dels Punts → The Roman Theatre is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.