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 182 km to Alacón; allow about 3 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: Recodo de los Chaparros II, La Coquinera and back through Recodo de los Chaparros II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 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 Recodo de los Chaparros II.
The Río Martín cuts a deep, narrow canyon through the dry limestone of the Bajo Aragón, in the province of Teruel, and the Recodo de los Chaparros, whose name means roughly the bend of the dwarf oaks, sits on that river a few kilometres from Albalate del Arzobispo. The land is rolling and almost treeless, covered in olive groves, almond trees and pale rocky fields, and it can feel like a different planet from the green north of Spain.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros II write-up.
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Recodo de los Chaparros II comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Coquinera.
You reach La Coquinera through some of the emptiest country in Spain. The rock shelter lies in the hills of the Río Martín Cultural Park, in the triangle between Oliete, Estercuel and Alacón, where the Martín river and its side ravines have sliced the Teruel plateau into terraces, cliffs and narrow gorges. The paintings here belong to the same Mediterranean tradition as the dozens of other panels in the park, figures of animals and people in ochre red, small enough that you have to stand close and let your eyes adjust before they emerge from the stone.
Read the complete La Coquinera write-up.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach La Coquinera. Next is back through Recodo de los Chaparros II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Recodo de los Chaparros II, 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 → Recodo de los Chaparros II is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Recodo de los Chaparros II → La Coquinera is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Coquinera → back through Recodo de los Chaparros II is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Recodo de los Chaparros II → Abrigo de los Trepadores is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.