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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A 275 km round trip from Alcaine - roughly 6 h 08 in the saddle. It goes by way of Los Estrechos II, Abric del mas de Barberà, Valcomuna and back through Abric del mas de Barberà. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Río Martín country of Teruel is a place of deep gorges and bare, honey-coloured hills, and Oliete and Estercuel are two of its tiny villages. The Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is a small shelter in a side ravine, named for the fig tree that grows at its mouth, and it holds paintings that belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, as protected by UNESCO. The pictures include the small red figures of the Levantine tradition, and the setting, under an overhang of golden rock, is a good place to sit and think about how few things have changed in the landscape.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
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Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is where the day begins. Next is Los Estrechos II.
The Río Martín is a modest stream that has done something dramatic. Over a very long time, it has cut a deep, narrow gorge through the pale limestone of the Bajo Aragón, with walls that crowd in on either side, and the stretch the locals call Los Estrechos, the Narrows, is where the cleft is tightest. The shelter at Los Estrechos II lies about five kilometres from Albalate del Arzobispo, and is one of the sites along the river protected by a cultural park. It carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and the ride links it to the Abrigo de la Higuera, the Fig-Tree Shelter.
Read the complete Los Estrechos II write-up.
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Los Estrechos II comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del mas de Barberà.
Alcañiz is the capital of the Bajo Aragón, a region of olive groves, cereal fields and dry hills crossed by the Guadalope river in the south-east of Aragón. The town is crowned by a castle built for the Order of Calatrava, now a parador, and its main square, with a Gothic loggia and the town hall, is one of the finest in the region. The shelter of the Mas de Barberà lies in the hills just outside town, toward Castelserás and Calanda.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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about 103 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is Valcomuna.
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.
Read the complete Valcomuna write-up.
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Valcomuna, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas de Barberà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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back through Abric del mas de Barberà sits at 121 km, about halfway. Next is back through Los Estrechos II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Estrechos II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Los Estrechos II comes up about 222 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester closes the day.
Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester → Los Estrechos II is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Estrechos II → Abric del mas de Barberà is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → Valcomuna is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valcomuna → back through Abric del mas de Barberà is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà → back through Los Estrechos II is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Los Estrechos II → Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.