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 187 km round trip from Oliete - roughly 3 h 46 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hocino de Chornas, Los Chaparros and back through Hocino de Chornas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Hocino de Chornas.
The Martín river cuts a deep, winding gorge through the limestone hills of Teruel, and its walls are full of shelters where prehistoric people painted animals, hunters and abstract symbols. The Hocino de Chornas, near Estercuel and Montalbán, is one of these sites, a narrow gorge with rock art on its walls, part of the Río Martín Cultural Park, which protects dozens of painted shelters along the river between Montalbán, Obón, Alacón and Ariño. The sites are part of the Mediterranean rock art group listed by UNESCO, and the cultural park has interpretation centres and guided visits that make the art more accessible than at many other sites.
Read the complete Hocino de Chornas write-up.
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Hocino de Chornas comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Los Chaparros.
Albalate del Arzobispo takes its name from its former masters, the archbishops of Zaragoza, and from an Arabic word for a paved road, which suggests the place has been a crossing point for a very long time. It sits in the Bajo Aragón on the Río Martín, a river that has cut a deep, dry gorge through the limestone on its way to the Ebro, and the Los Chaparros shelter, the Holm-Oak Shelter, lies about five and a half kilometres from the town. It belongs to a group of painted shelters, in the Levantine style, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain and managed locally as a cultural park along the river.
Read the complete Los Chaparros write-up.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Los Chaparros. Next is back through Hocino de Chornas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hocino de Chornas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hocino de Chornas, 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 → Hocino de Chornas is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hocino de Chornas → Los Chaparros is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Chaparros → back through Hocino de Chornas is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hocino de Chornas → frontón de la Tía Chula is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.