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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358 km from Cervera de la Cañada to Cervera de la Cañada, about 5 h 25 of riding. It goes by way of Cueva de moncín I, Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí and back through Cueva de moncín I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 82 km of Cueva de moncín I → Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí.
Cervera de la Cañada is a village of a few hundred people in the hills south of the Jalón valley, in the province of Zaragoza, with a church of Santa Tecla whose brick apse is one of the finest examples of Mudéjar work in Aragon. The label puts you right in the village, and the town of Calatayud lies twelve kilometres away to the north-east, on the main road between Madrid and Zaragoza.
Read the complete Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de moncín I.
Borja is a town of four thousand people in the Ebro valley, but its name is known far beyond Spain, because it is the origin of the Borgia family. Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, took his surname from this place, and the family's later fame in Italy, for poison, politics and portraits, makes a curious footnote to a quiet farming town. More recently, Borja became famous for a fresco. In 2012, an elderly parishioner's attempt to restore a painting of Christ in the nearby Sanctuary of Mercy turned it into an internet sensation, and visitors have come to see it ever since.
Read the complete Cueva de moncín I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de moncín I comes up about 97 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 179 km into the recorded legs you reach Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí. Next is back through Cueva de moncín I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de moncín I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de moncín I, late in the day. Next is Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla. That is the ride.
Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla → Cueva de moncín I is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de moncín I → Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Restos mudéjares de palacio de la Aljaferí → back through Cueva de moncín I is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cueva de moncín I → Iglesia parroquial de Santa Tecla is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.