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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255 km from Roda de Barà to Roda de Barà, about 3 h 59 of riding. On the way it passes Cova dels Segarulls, Crypt at the Colònia Güell, La Pedra de les Orenetes and back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 48 km this is Monserrat Mountain Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
Read the complete Triumphal Arch of Berá write-up.
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Triumphal Arch of Berá 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 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Crypt at the Colònia Güell.
Few people ride out of Barcelona expecting to find Gaudí in a mill village, but that is exactly what waits at Santa Coloma de Cervelló, a short hop up the Llobregat from Sant Boi. The Colònia Güell was a textile colony founded by the industrialist Eusebi Güell, who moved his cotton works out of the city in the 1890s and built housing, a school, shops and a theatre for the workers around the factory. He asked his friend Antoni Gaudí for a church. Gaudí spent about ten years on the design and its foundations, and when money and the Güell family's enthusiasm ran out around 1914, only the lower level had been finished. That crypt is what you come to see.
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about 80 km into the recorded legs you reach Crypt at the Colònia Güell. Next is La Pedra de les Orenetes.
La Pedra de les Orenetes, the Swallows' Stone, is a granite boulder in the hills above La Roca del Vallès, and its surface is covered with small carved hollows and other marks left by people in prehistory. Nobody knows exactly what they meant; such engraved rocks are found across Catalonia, and theories range from ritual offerings to maps of the stars. The rock sits among cork oaks and pines in the Serralada Litoral, the coastal range that separates the Vallès plain from the sea, and the walk to reach it is short and pleasant, through scented forest with views over the plain.
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La Pedra de les Orenetes, about halfway. Next is back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Crypt at the Colònia Güell write-up.
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back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell sits at 155 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 222 km into the recorded legs. Next is Triumphal Arch of Berá.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Triumphal Arch of Berá write-up.
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Triumphal Arch of Berá closes the day.
Triumphal Arch of Berá → Cova dels Segarulls is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Segarulls → Crypt at the Colònia Güell is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crypt at the Colònia Güell → La Pedra de les Orenetes is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Pedra de les Orenetes → back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell → back through Cova dels Segarulls is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova dels Segarulls → Triumphal Arch of Berá is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.