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 274 km round trip from Lechón - roughly 4 h 37 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abside, Rillo I and back through Abside. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The prehistoric painters of eastern Spain had a thing for archers. Across hundreds of rock shelters from Catalonia to Andalusia, they painted small, dynamic human figures drawing bows, chasing deer and goats, sometimes fighting each other, and these scenes of the so-called Levantine style are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Shelters with names like the Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros, the shelter of the black archers, are scattered through the limestone hills of the province of Teruel and its neighbours in Aragon, often in remote ravines and protected by grilles.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros write-up.
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Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros is where the day begins. Next is Abside.
The apse in question belongs to the collegiate church of Santa María in Calatayud, and it is one of the reasons UNESCO lists the Mudéjar architecture of Aragon as a whole. Mudéjar means the building style of Muslim craftsmen living under Christian rule after the reconquest, and in Calatayud they did wonderful things with humble brick: geometric patterns, lozenges and interlacing arches laid out in relief, glazed tiles catching the sun. Next to the apse rises an octagonal brick tower that is the town's signature, and behind it a cloister, all three named in the listing.
Read the complete Abside write-up.
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Abside comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rillo I.
The Señorío de Molina is a high, cold, sparsely populated tableland on the boundary of Guadalajara and Aragon, and it feels like it, with big skies, wheat and sheep, wide valleys and villages of stone. Rillo, five or six kilometres from Molina de Aragón, sits at about a thousand metres on this plateau, where winters are among the harshest in Spain and snow can lie for weeks. Molina has a reputation as one of the coldest towns in the country, but a rider in June finds only a dry, bright warmth.
Read the complete Rillo I write-up.
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about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Rillo I. Next is back through Abside.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abside write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abside, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros. That is the ride.
Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros → Abside is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abside → Rillo I is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rillo I → back through Abside is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abside → Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.