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 324 km round trip from Calamocha - roughly 5 h 19 in the saddle. On the way it passes El Cerrao, Abric del mas de Barberà and back through El Cerrao. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Calamocha has a reputation in Spain, and it is not for its nightlife. This town in the Jiloca valley of Teruel province is one of the coldest places in the country in winter, a high, open basin where the air pools at night and frost bites hard. In summer that same altitude makes it pleasant when the coast is sweltering. The Cañada de Marco is a site in the hills just outside town, and the name hints at the old drove roads, the cañadas, that once carried flocks of sheep across Aragon between summer and winter pastures.
Read the complete Cañada de marco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cañada de marco is where the day begins. Next is El Cerrao.
The Río Martín is a modest river by Spanish standards, but it has carved one of the most interesting canyons in Aragon, and the Cultural Park that takes its name protects an extraordinary collection of rock art. El Cerrao is one of the shelters in that park, in the district of Montalbán in the province of Teruel, among cliffs of pale limestone above a dry valley. The paintings here belong to the Levantine tradition and are part of the group UNESCO inscribed in 1998.
Read the complete El Cerrao write-up.
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El Cerrao comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del mas de Barberà.
Alcañiz is the capital of the Bajo Aragón, a region of olive groves, cereal fields and dry hills crossed by the Guadalope river in the south-east of Aragón. The town is crowned by a castle built for the Order of Calatrava, now a parador, and its main square, with a Gothic loggia and the town hall, is one of the finest in the region. The shelter of the Mas de Barberà lies in the hills just outside town, toward Castelserás and Calanda.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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about 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is back through El Cerrao.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Cerrao write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through El Cerrao, late in the day. Next is Cañada de marco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañada de marco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cañada de marco. That is the ride.
Cañada de marco → El Cerrao is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Cerrao → Abric del mas de Barberà is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → back through El Cerrao is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Cerrao → Cañada de marco is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.