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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478 km from Fuentespalda to Fuentespalda, about 8 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes Abric del.mas Blanc, El Cerrao and back through Abric del.mas Blanc. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Matarraña, in the far east of Teruel province, is often called the Tuscany of Aragon, and for once the comparison holds. Stone villages crown hilltops above olive groves and vineyards, rivers run clear through limestone gorges, and the light in the evening is honey-coloured. Valmayor is a ravine in the hills here, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and the Catalan border, and its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. As elsewhere, they are protected, and visits are best arranged through local tourist offices.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Valmayor V is where the day begins. Next is Abric del.mas Blanc, 81 km on.
Benassal is a stone village on a high plateau in the Alt Maestrat, in the interior of Castellón, at around eight hundred metres above sea level, and it is known throughout the region for its spring water, the Font d'en Segures, which is bottled and sold across Spain. The Abric del Mas Blanc, the shelter of the white farmhouse, is one of the many rock-art sites in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art. The nearby Valltorta gorge, about twenty kilometres to the east, has some of the most famous Levantine paintings, including dramatic hunting scenes, and the Valltorta museum in Tírig is the best place to learn about them.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del.mas Blanc comes up about 101 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Cerrao.
The Río Martín is a modest river by Spanish standards, but it has carved one of the most interesting canyons in Aragon, and the Cultural Park that takes its name protects an extraordinary collection of rock art. El Cerrao is one of the shelters in that park, in the district of Montalbán in the province of Teruel, among cliffs of pale limestone above a dry valley. The paintings here belong to the Levantine tradition and are part of the group UNESCO inscribed in 1998.
Read the complete El Cerrao write-up.
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about 239 km into the recorded legs you reach El Cerrao. Next is back through Abric del.mas Blanc, 81 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del.mas Blanc write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del.mas Blanc, late in the day. Next is Valmayor V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Valmayor V. That is the ride.
Valmayor V → Abric del.mas Blanc is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del.mas Blanc → El Cerrao is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
El Cerrao → back through Abric del.mas Blanc is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abric del.mas Blanc → Valmayor V is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.