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 Tobed to Tobed, about 4 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí, Forau del Cocho and back through Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
73 km on Iglesia de Santa María → Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí.
Somewhere in the folds of the Sierra de Algairén, south-west of Zaragoza, a bell tower pokes up above a cluster of ochre roofs, and that is your Iglesia de Santa María. Half the villages of Aragon have a church of that name, and this one does the job the others do: it marks the middle of a small place where the shop, the bar and the plaza all orbit the same square of stone. The nearest neighbours on the map are Cosuenda, Almonacid de la Sierra and Alpartir, each a few hundred souls, each about nine kilometres off.
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Iglesia de Santa María is where the day begins. Next is Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí.
The Aljafería is the one great building in Zaragoza that tells you the city was once Muslim. It was built in the eleventh century as a pleasure palace for the Hudid rulers of the taifa of Zaragoza, a small independent kingdom that emerged when the caliphate of Córdoba collapsed, and its inner courtyard, with slender arches that interlace and curve, is one of the finest examples of Islamic architecture in the north of Spain. After the Christian conquest in 1118, it became a royal residence of the kings of Aragón, and the Catholic Monarchs added a sumptuous palace with gilded ceilings in the late fifteenth century. In the nineteenth century, it served as a barracks, and today it is the seat of the Aragonese parliament. The Mudéjar parts, the work of Muslim craftsmen who stayed after the conquest, are part of a UNESCO listing for Mudéjar architecture in Aragón.
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Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Forau del Cocho.
South of Huesca the land opens out. The Pyrenees are behind you, a snowy line on a clear day, and ahead stretches the gently rolling cereal country that eventually turns into the dry steppes of Los Monegros. Forau del Cocho lies in this transitional landscape, between Torres de Barbués, Almuniente and the outskirts of Huesca itself, a place where the only relief is the occasional low ridge or gully cut into soft rock.
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about 157 km into the recorded legs you reach Forau del Cocho. Next is back through Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí write-up.
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back through Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí, late in the day. Next is Iglesia de Santa María.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iglesia de Santa María write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Iglesia de Santa María. That is the ride.
Iglesia de Santa María → Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí → Forau del Cocho is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Forau del Cocho → back through Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí → Iglesia de Santa María is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.