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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From Alacón it runs 351 km to Alacón; allow about 7 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, Abric de la Tenalla and back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Borriquitos means little donkeys, and whoever named this shelter presumably saw something long-eared and four-legged in the red paint, though Levantine painters drew deer and goats far more often than donkeys. The name is a reminder that these places were named by farmers, long before they were studied by archaeologists, and that what a shepherd sees on a wall may not be what a professor sees. The shelter is near Alacón, in the Martín valley in Teruel, and belongs to the Parque Cultural del Río Martín.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Borriquitos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Borriquitos is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
Castellote is one of those villages in the Teruel Maestrazgo that seems to have been built by people who wanted to be left alone. Its houses pile up beneath a great rock wall topped by the ruins of a castle associated with the Knights Templar, and the Guadalope river winds below on its way into the Santolea reservoir. The Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, a painted rock shelter in a deep ravine outside the village, is part of the extensive collection of Levantine rock art scattered through these mountains, with small figures in red ochre that have survived on the stone for millennia.
Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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Abrigo del Barranco Hondo comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la Tenalla.
The Tinença de Benifassà is one of the wildest corners of the Valencian region, a cluster of tiny villages in the mountains where Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet, and the Abric de la Tenalla lies on its southeastern edge, near Rosell. It is one of the many rock shelters in this area with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the nearby Serra de Godall and the Ulldecona shelters to the east are among the most important sites in Catalonia. The landscape is dramatic: limestone cliffs, deep gorges, pine and holm oak forests, and abandoned terraces where shepherds once grazed their flocks.
Read the complete Abric de la Tenalla write-up.
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about 175 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Tenalla. Next is back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de los Borriquitos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Borriquitos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de los Borriquitos. That is the ride.
Abrigo de los Borriquitos → Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → Abric de la Tenalla is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Tenalla → back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → Abrigo de los Borriquitos is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.