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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 337 km round trip from Maleján - roughly 4 h 58 in the saddle. The stops in between: Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla, Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros and back through Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de moncín I is where the day begins. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros.
The prehistoric painters of eastern Spain had a thing for archers. Across hundreds of rock shelters from Catalonia to Andalusia, they painted small, dynamic human figures drawing bows, chasing deer and goats, sometimes fighting each other, and these scenes of the so-called Levantine style are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Shelters with names like the Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros, the shelter of the black archers, are scattered through the limestone hills of the province of Teruel and its neighbours in Aragon, often in remote ravines and protected by grilles.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 168 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla, late in the day. Next is Cueva de moncín I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de moncín I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de moncín I. That is the ride.
Cueva de moncín I → Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla → Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros → back through Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 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.