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. The stops in between: 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 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 → 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 → Hocino de Chornas is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.