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 351 km round trip from Alacón - roughly 7 h 28 in the saddle. On the way it passes 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Río Martín runs through the dry hills of Teruel province in northern Spain, and the villages along its banks, Alacón, Oliete and Muniesa among them, are tiny places that seem to belong to a calmer century. The Abrigo de los Trepadores is one of the rock shelters of the area, part of a cultural park that protects the paintings found in the cliffs and gorges of the valley. Many belong to the Levantine tradition, small red figures of hunters and animals, and others are schematic, simple signs and stick-like human forms, painted by later peoples. The paintings can be hard to find without a guide, and access is regulated, so plan ahead.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Trepadores write-up.
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Abrigo de los Trepadores 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.
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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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de los Trepadores.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Trepadores write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de los Trepadores. That is the ride.
Abrigo de los Trepadores → 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 Trepadores is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.