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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343 km from Oliete to Oliete, about 4 h of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, Coveta de la Cornisa, Abric del mas dels Ous and back through Coveta de la Cornisa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
Castellote is one of those villages in the Teruel Maestrazgo that seems to have been built by people who wanted to be left alone. Its houses pile up beneath a great rock wall topped by the ruins of a castle associated with the Knights Templar, and the Guadalope river winds below on its way into the Santolea reservoir. The Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, a painted rock shelter in a deep ravine outside the village, is part of the extensive collection of Levantine rock art scattered through these mountains, with small figures in red ochre that have survived on the stone for millennia.
Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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Abrigo del Barranco Hondo comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coveta de la Cornisa.
Morella is one of the most dramatic towns in Spain: a walled medieval city wrapped around a conical hill, with a castle on the summit and its walls running unbroken around the base. It stands in the mountains of the Ports in the north of Castellón province, at around a thousand metres, and its silhouette, seen from the roads that climb toward it, is unforgettable. The Coveta de la Cornisa, the little cave of the ledge, lies in the hills about four kilometres away.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Coveta de la Cornisa. Next is Abric del mas dels Ous.
Xert is the kind of village you pass through on the way to somewhere else and then wonder why you did not stop. It lies in the Baix Maestrat in northern Castellón, below a ridge of bare limestone, with the old village climbing the slope and a newer part down by the road. The shelter called the Abric del Mas dels Ous, the shelter of the farmhouse of the eggs, is out in the dry hills nearby, between Xert, Canet lo Roig and Rosell.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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Abric del mas dels Ous, about halfway. Next is back through Coveta de la Cornisa.
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Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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back through Coveta de la Cornisa sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo comes up about 279 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
frontón de la Tía Chula closes the day.
frontón de la Tía Chula → Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → Coveta de la Cornisa is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → Abric del mas dels Ous is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → back through Coveta de la Cornisa is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta de la Cornisa → back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → frontón de la Tía Chula is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.