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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303 km from Obón to Obón, about 6 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of Covacho esquemático, Abric del mas de Barberà, Valcomuna 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. 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 Covacho esquemático.
Some shelters hide in plain sight, and the covacho esquemático is one of them, a shallow overhang in the limestone above the Río Martín, with a few schematic figures painted in red. Schematic art is the shorthand of prehistory, stripped to essentials: a stick-like human, a dot, a zigzag, a sun disc. It belongs to a later phase than the more naturalistic hunting scenes of the Levantine tradition, and it is found across the Iberian peninsula, here in the district around Alacón and Oliete in Teruel province, which forms part of the Río Martín Cultural Park.
Read the complete Covacho esquemático write-up.
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Covacho esquemático comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 118 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is Valcomuna.
Lower Aragon is a country of dry hills, olive groves and red earth, and in its ravines people painted on the rock thousands of years ago. Valcomuna is one of those rock art sites, between Alcañiz and Caspe near the village of Maella, part of the great family of painted shelters running down Spain's Mediterranean side that UNESCO listed as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The figures in this tradition are small and lively, archers, deer, goats and people in motion, painted in red and black under overhangs where the weather could not wash them away.
Read the complete Valcomuna write-up.
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Valcomuna, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas de Barberà.
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Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
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back through Abric del mas de Barberà sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Covacho esquemático.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacho esquemático write-up.
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back through Covacho esquemático comes up about 269 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Hocino de Chornas closes the day.
Hocino de Chornas → Covacho esquemático is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacho esquemático → Abric del mas de Barberà is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → Valcomuna is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valcomuna → back through Abric del mas de Barberà is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà → back through Covacho esquemático is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Covacho esquemático → Hocino de Chornas is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.