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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480 km from Caspe to Caspe, about 10 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Cueva de la font de la Bernarda, Abric de la Tenalla, Abric d'Esquarterades I and Abric de la mostela. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Lower Aragon is a country of dry hills, olive groves and red earth, and in its ravines people painted on the rock thousands of years ago. Valcomuna is one of those rock art sites, between Alcañiz and Caspe near the village of Maella, part of the great family of painted shelters running down Spain's Mediterranean side that UNESCO listed as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The figures in this tradition are small and lively, archers, deer, goats and people in motion, painted in red and black under overhangs where the weather could not wash them away.
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Valcomuna is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de la font de la Bernarda.
Ask a rider where the best quiet roads in Aragon are and, sooner or later, someone says Matarraña. It is the river and the district at the southern end of Teruel province, a land of olive terraces, almond orchards, honey-coloured villages and low limestone ridges, and people in Zaragoza call it the Tuscany of Aragon without any irony. The Cueva de la Font de la Bernarda sits in the hills a few kilometres from Calaceite, with Valderrobres just over the hill and the Catalan border not far beyond.
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Cueva de la font de la Bernarda comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la Tenalla.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the wildest corners of the Valencian region, a cluster of tiny villages in the mountains where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet, and the Abric de la Tenalla lies on its southeastern edge, near Rosell. It is one of the many rock shelters in this area with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the nearby Serra de Godall and the Ulldecona shelters to the east are among the most important sites in Catalonia. The landscape is dramatic: limestone cliffs, deep gorges, pine and holm oak forests, and abandoned terraces where shepherds once grazed their flocks.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Tenalla. Next is Abric d'Esquarterades I.
In the dry hills behind Ulldecona, near the southern tip of Catalonia, small figures painted in red ochre run, hunt and gather across the walls of shallow rock shelters. These are the paintings of Levantine rock art, made by prehistoric people some seven to eight thousand years ago, and the shelters of the Serra de Godall, including the Abric d'Esquarterades, are among the best examples. They are part of the World Heritage site that covers rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Abric d'Esquarterades I, about halfway. Next is Abric de la mostela.
The hill country around Albocàsser and Catí, in the north of Castellón province, is a landscape of terraced slopes, almond trees and limestone ravines that few visitors cross on their way from the coast to Morella.
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Abric de la mostela sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric d'Esquarterades I.
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Read the complete Abric d'Esquarterades I write-up.
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back through Abric d'Esquarterades I comes up about 291 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric de la Tenalla.
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Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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about 334 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric de la Tenalla. Next is back through Cueva de la font de la Bernarda.
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Read the complete Cueva de la font de la Bernarda write-up.
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back through Cueva de la font de la Bernarda, late in the day. Next is Valcomuna.
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Read the complete Valcomuna write-up.
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The route ends here after 480 km.
Valcomuna → Cueva de la font de la Bernarda is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la font de la Bernarda → Abric de la Tenalla is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Tenalla → Abric d'Esquarterades I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric d'Esquarterades I → Abric de la mostela is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la mostela → back through Abric d'Esquarterades I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric d'Esquarterades I → back through Abric de la Tenalla is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Tenalla → back through Cueva de la font de la Bernarda is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de la font de la Bernarda → Valcomuna is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.