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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365 km from Calatayud to Calatayud, about 5 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Iglesia de Santa María, Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros, Abrigo de los Trepadores and back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Abside is where the day begins. Next is Iglesia de Santa María.
Somewhere in the folds of the Sierra de Algairén, south-west of Zaragoza, a bell tower pokes up above a cluster of ochre roofs, and that is your Iglesia de Santa María. Half the villages of Aragon have a church of that name, and this one does the job the others do: it marks the middle of a small place where the shop, the bar and the plaza all orbit the same square of stone. The nearest neighbours on the map are Cosuenda, Almonacid de la Sierra and Alpartir, each a few hundred souls, each about nine kilometres off.
Read the complete Iglesia de Santa María write-up.
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Iglesia de Santa María comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros.
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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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros. Next is Abrigo de los Trepadores.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros sits at 179 km, about halfway. Next is back through Iglesia de Santa María.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iglesia de Santa María write-up.
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back through Iglesia de Santa María comes up about 330 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Abside closes the day.
Abside → Iglesia de Santa María is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Iglesia de Santa María → Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros → Abrigo de los Trepadores is 107 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Trepadores → back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros is 113 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros → back through Iglesia de Santa María is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Iglesia de Santa María → Abside is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.