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 330 km round trip from Calatayud - roughly 4 h 58 in the saddle. The stops in between: 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 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.
Read the complete Abside write-up.
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Abside is where the day begins. 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.
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Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de los Trepadores. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros, late in the day. 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.
Back at Abside. That is the ride.
Abside → Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros is 56 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 → Abside is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.