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 166 km round trip from Castellote - roughly 4 h 11 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d, Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A and back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d.
The Guadalope river cuts a deep canyon through the limestone of the Maestrazgo in eastern Teruel, and the Abrigo del Arenal de la Fonseca lies in this wild country near the hamlet of Ladruñán, between the villages of Castellote and Cantavieja. It is one of the important rock-art shelters of Aragon, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art, with Levantine paintings of animals and human figures in red pigment on the rock. The setting is spectacular: a narrow gorge with towering cliffs, the river flowing below, and pine and holm oak clinging to the slopes. Access involves a walk, and the paintings are protected by a fence.
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Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A.
Els Ports is the high, empty country in the north of Castellón province, a land of stone-walled terraces, deep gorges, juniper and pine, and villages that cling to ridges above the river valleys. Palanques is one of the smallest of them, and above it, in a long cliff band known as the Cingle de Palanques, are shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Levantine paintings here show human figures and animals in the expressive style typical of this coast's mountainous interior, and like most such sites, they are protected and usually visited with a local guide.
Read the complete Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A write-up.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A. Next is back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d, late in the day. Next is 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 at Abrigo del Barranco Hondo. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d → Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cingle de Palanques- Abrigo A → back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d → Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.