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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305 km from Ares del Maestre to Ares del Maestre, about 5 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Els figuerals, Cabra feixet and back through Els figuerals. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Villaroges is one of those names that appears on a map of prehistoric sites rather than a road atlas, somewhere in the high country of the Alt Maestrat between Benassal, Culla and Vilafranca. It belongs to the extraordinary concentration of rock art in the mountains of Castellón, where small painted shelters are scattered through the ravines, protected as part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. Exactly where the panel lies, and whether it can be visited, is a question for the local tourist office or the museum at Tírig; treat the name as an invitation into one of the emptiest and most beautiful corners of eastern Spain.
Read the complete Villaroges write-up.
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Villaroges is where the day begins. Next is Els figuerals.
The Matarraña, or Matarranya in Catalan, is the corner of Teruel that tourism brochures like to call Spain's Tuscany, and for once the comparison is not silly. Olive groves and almond orchards climb rolling hills topped by stone villages with church towers, while to the south the limestone wall of the Ports de Beseit rises abruptly, cut by gorges and clear rivers. Near the village of Fuentespalda, a painted shelter called Els Figuerals adds this valley to the long UNESCO roll of Iberian rock art.
Read the complete Els figuerals write-up.
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Els figuerals comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cabra feixet.
El Perelló is a hill village on the old coast road between Tarragona and Tortosa, and it is famous for honey. Bees have been kept on these scrubby limestone slopes for centuries, feeding on rosemary, thyme and wild flowers, and every winter the village holds a honey fair that draws visitors from across Catalonia. In the hills around, sheltered under an overhang, is the rock art of Cabra Feixet, part of the Levantine paintings of eastern Spain inscribed together by UNESCO. The figures are small and faded, and the site is best visited with a guide or after asking at the village; please do not touch the rock.
Read the complete Cabra feixet write-up.
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about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Cabra feixet. Next is back through Els figuerals.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Els figuerals write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Els figuerals, late in the day. Next is Villaroges.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villaroges write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Villaroges. That is the ride.
Villaroges → Els figuerals is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Els figuerals → Cabra feixet is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cabra feixet → back through Els figuerals is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Els figuerals → Villaroges is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.