CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 336 km round trip from Oliete - roughly 4 h 54 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros, Abside and back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 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 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.
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Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros comes up 64 km in. Next is Abside.
The apse in question belongs to the collegiate church of Santa María in Calatayud, and it is one of the reasons UNESCO lists the Mudéjar architecture of Aragon as a whole. Mudéjar means the building style of Muslim craftsmen living under Christian rule after the reconquest, and in Calatayud they did wonderful things with humble brick: geometric patterns, lozenges and interlacing arches laid out in relief, glazed tiles catching the sun. Next to the apse rises an octagonal brick tower that is the town's signature, and behind it a cloister, all three named in the listing.
Read the complete Abside write-up.
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129 km in you reach Abside. Next is back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros, late in the day. 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.
Back at frontón de la Tía Chula. That is the ride.
frontón de la Tía Chula → Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros → Abside is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abside → back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Arqueros Negros → frontón de la Tía Chula is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.