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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From Alacón it runs 191 km to Alacón; allow about 4 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: La Coquinera, friso Abierto del Pudial and back through La Coquinera. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 La Coquinera.
You reach La Coquinera through some of the emptiest country in Spain. The rock shelter lies in the hills of the Río Martín Cultural Park, in the triangle between Oliete, Estercuel and Alacón, where the Martín river and its side ravines have sliced the Teruel plateau into terraces, cliffs and narrow gorges. The paintings here belong to the same Mediterranean tradition as the dozens of other panels in the park, figures of animals and people in ochre red, small enough that you have to stand close and let your eyes adjust before they emerge from the stone.
Read the complete La Coquinera write-up.
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La Coquinera comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is friso Abierto del Pudial.
Deep in the Maestrazgo of Teruel, where the Guadalope river carves its way between limestone walls, the rock shelters around Castellote and Molinos hold painted figures left by prehistoric communities. The Friso Abierto del Pudial is one of them, an open frieze on a sheltered rock face, part of the extraordinary chain of Levantine art sites listed by UNESCO. The figures are faint, and visiting typically means a walk on rough ground, but the setting alone is worth the effort.
Read the complete friso Abierto del Pudial write-up.
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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach friso Abierto del Pudial. Next is back through La Coquinera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Coquinera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La Coquinera, 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 → La Coquinera is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Coquinera → friso Abierto del Pudial is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
friso Abierto del Pudial → back through La Coquinera is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Coquinera → Covacho de la Tía mona is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.