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 386 km round trip from Alacón - roughly 7 h 48 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d, Centelles- Abric I 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.
The name means the smoky little shelter, and it fits: a modest overhang darkened by soot, one of the rock art sites around Alacón in the Río Martín Cultural Park in Teruel province. The Martín river has carved canyons through limestone here, and its walls hold dozens of painted panels, from naturalistic Levantine hunting scenes to the later schematic style of stick figures and symbols. Alacón alone has several groups of shelters, and the park has an interpretation centre in the area to explain them.
Read the complete Covacho Ahumado write-up.
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Covacho Ahumado 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.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d write-up.
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Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d comes up about 96 km into the recorded legs. Next is Centelles- Abric I.
Albocàsser and Catí are two quiet stone towns in the inland hills of Castellón, and between them, in a rocky ravine, the Centelles shelters hold some of the prehistoric paintings that make this corner of Spain a capital of Levantine rock art. The style is distinctive: small human figures, often archers, painted in red with long legs and dynamic poses, hunting deer, ibex and boar, sometimes in groups, sometimes in battle. The sites are part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Valltorta gorge, near Tírig, holds some of the most famous examples, and its museum explains the art and the people who made it.
Read the complete Centelles- Abric I write-up.
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about 201 km into the recorded legs you reach Centelles- Abric I. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d, late in the day. Next is Covacho Ahumado.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacho Ahumado write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Covacho Ahumado. That is the ride.
Covacho Ahumado → Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d → Centelles- Abric I is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Centelles- Abric I → back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 89 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 → Covacho Ahumado is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.