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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279 km from Obón to Obón, about 4 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Abric del mas de Barberà, mas de Patriciel I and back through Abric del mas de Barberà. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hocino de Chornas is where the day begins. Next is Abric del mas de Barberà.
Alcañiz is the capital of the Bajo Aragón, a region of olive groves, cereal fields and dry hills crossed by the Guadalope river in the south-east of Aragón. The town is crowned by a castle built for the Order of Calatrava, now a parador, and its main square, with a Gothic loggia and the town hall, is one of the finest in the region. The shelter of the Mas de Barberà lies in the hills just outside town, toward Castelserás and Calanda.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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Abric del mas de Barberà comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is mas de Patriciel I.
Where the Ebro and the Segre meet near Mequinenza, the rivers have been dammed into two long reservoirs, and the result is a strange, beautiful landscape of blue water filling deep valleys among dry, terraced hills. The rock shelters of Mas de Patriciel lie in the hills between Mequinenza, Nonaspe and Fayón, part of the network of painted sites that UNESCO listed as the Mediterranean rock art of Iberia.
Read the complete mas de Patriciel I write-up.
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about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach mas de Patriciel I. Next is back through Abric del mas de Barberà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà, late in the day. Next is 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 at Hocino de Chornas. That is the ride.
Hocino de Chornas → Abric del mas de Barberà is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → mas de Patriciel I is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
mas de Patriciel I → back through Abric del mas de Barberà is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà → Hocino de Chornas is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.