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.
Aunt Mona's Shelter is the translation of the name, and like most such names, it hides a story nobody can now quite tell. Tía Mona was presumably a woman of Alacón, or of a farm nearby, whose memory stuck to a hollow in the rock long after her family stopped using it. The covacho, a small cave or overhang, lies about three and a half kilometres from the village, in the dry hills of the Bajo Aragón. It carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO among the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and it belongs to the cultural park of the Río Martín, which links the district's sites together.
Read the complete Covacho de la Tía mona write-up.
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Covacho de la Tía mona 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.
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back through Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d, late in the day. Next is Covacho de la Tía mona.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacho de la Tía mona write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Covacho de la Tía mona. That is the ride.
Covacho de la Tía mona → 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 de la Tía mona is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.