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 414 km round trip from Calamocha - roughly 6 h 32 in the saddle. On the way it passes Iglesia de Santa María, Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla, Cueva de moncín I and back through Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla. 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.
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.
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Cañada de marco 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 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla.
Cervera de la Cañada is a village of a few hundred people in the hills south of the Jalón valley, in the province of Zaragoza, with a church of Santa Tecla whose brick apse is one of the finest examples of Mudéjar work in Aragon. The label puts you right in the village, and the town of Calatayud lies twelve kilometres away to the north-east, on the main road between Madrid and Zaragoza.
Read the complete Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla write-up.
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about 108 km into the recorded legs you reach Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla. Next is Cueva de moncín I.
Borja is a town of four thousand people in the Ebro valley, but its name is known far beyond Spain, because it is the origin of the Borgia family. Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, took his surname from this place, and the family's later fame in Italy, for poison, politics and portraits, makes a curious footnote to a quiet farming town. More recently, Borja became famous for a fresco. In 2012, an elderly parishioner's attempt to restore a painting of Christ in the nearby Sanctuary of Mercy turned it into an internet sensation, and visitors have come to see it ever since.
Read the complete Cueva de moncín I write-up.
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Cueva de moncín I, about halfway. Next is back through Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla write-up.
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back through Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla sits at 221 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Iglesia de Santa María comes up about 359 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Cañada de marco closes the day.
Cañada de marco → Iglesia de Santa María is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Iglesia de Santa María → Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla → Cueva de moncín I is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de moncín I → back through Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla → back through Iglesia de Santa María is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Iglesia de Santa María → Cañada de marco is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.