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 125 km round trip from Obón - roughly 2 h 30 in the saddle. On the way it passes frontón de la Tía Chula, Recodo de los Chaparros II and back through frontón de la Tía Chula. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Río Martín is a modest river by Spanish standards, but it has carved one of the most interesting canyons in Aragon, and the Cultural Park that takes its name protects an extraordinary collection of rock art. El Cerrao is one of the shelters in that park, in the district of Montalbán in the province of Teruel, among cliffs of pale limestone above a dry valley. The paintings here belong to the Levantine tradition and are part of the group UNESCO inscribed in 1998.
Read the complete El Cerrao write-up.
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El Cerrao is where the day begins. Next is frontón de la Tía Chula.
The frontón of a Spanish village is a plain wall with a flat court in front of it, where the pelota ball is hit against stone, and in tiny places like Oliete it is still the centre of summer evenings. The Tía Chula in the name was presumably someone local, and the frontón is the label's starting point, but the real attraction nearby is the land: a dry, hilly part of Teruel province where the Martín river cuts its way through limestone. Oliete is part of the Río Martín Cultural Park, a protected district that brings together rock shelters, old mining villages and gorges in a single trail of heritage sites.
Read the complete frontón de la Tía Chula write-up.
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frontón de la Tía Chula comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Recodo de los Chaparros II.
The Río Martín cuts a deep, narrow canyon through the dry limestone of the Bajo Aragón, in the province of Teruel, and the Recodo de los Chaparros, whose name means roughly the bend of the dwarf oaks, sits on that river a few kilometres from Albalate del Arzobispo. The land is rolling and almost treeless, covered in olive groves, almond trees and pale rocky fields, and it can feel like a different planet from the green north of Spain.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros II write-up.
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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Recodo de los Chaparros II. Next is back through frontón de la Tía Chula.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete frontón de la Tía Chula write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through frontón de la Tía Chula, late in the day. Next is El Cerrao.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Cerrao write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at El Cerrao. That is the ride.
El Cerrao → frontón de la Tía Chula is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
frontón de la Tía Chula → Recodo de los Chaparros II is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Recodo de los Chaparros II → back through frontón de la Tía Chula is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through frontón de la Tía Chula → El Cerrao is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.