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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206 km from Nonaspe to Nonaspe, about 3 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume, Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés, Albi II / Balma dels Punts and back through Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Where the Ebro, the Segre and the Cinca meet in eastern Aragon, a vast reservoir stretches for dozens of kilometres between bare, ochre hills. The locals call it the Mar de Aragón, the Sea of Aragon, and it was created in the 1960s when the Mequinenza dam flooded the valley. The old town of Mequinenza went under the water too, and its people were moved to a new town built above, a story told in moving detail in the local museums and in the novels of Jesús Moncada, who grew up there.
Read the complete Valmayor IV write-up.
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Valmayor IV is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés.
South of Lleida the irrigated orchards give way abruptly to dry, open steppe, and the little village of Alfés sits on the edge of that change. The Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés are rock paintings in a small sandstone shelter near the village, schematic designs in red pigment, mostly abstract lines, dots and simplified figures, that belong to the later, more symbolic phase of prehistoric art in eastern Spain, and they are included in the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean Basin rock art. They are modest to look at, but there is something powerful about seeing marks left by people thousands of years ago in such an open, wind-swept place.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés.
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Read the complete Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés write-up.
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back through Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés sits at 126 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume.
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Read the complete Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume write-up.
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back through Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume comes up about 184 km into the recorded legs. Next is Valmayor IV.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valmayor IV write-up.
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Valmayor IV closes the day.
Valmayor IV → Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume → Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés → Albi II / Balma dels Punts is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albi II / Balma dels Punts → back through Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pintures Rupestres d'Alfés → back through Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Barranc de Sant Jaume → Valmayor IV is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.