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 380 km round trip from Albalate del Arzobispo - roughly 8 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester, Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, Coveta de la Cornisa and back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo. 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.
Los Estrechos means the narrows, and the name fits the country around Albalate del Arzobispo, in the Bajo Aragón, where the Martín river squeezes through limestone gorges on its way to the Ebro. The landscape is dry and open, a mixture of olive groves, almond terraces and low scrub, with sudden canyons and cliffs. The Martín valley is protected as a cultural park, because it holds a remarkable series of rock shelters with Levantine and Schematic paintings, some of which belong to the Mediterranean-arc group that UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Los Estrechos I write-up.
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Los Estrechos I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester.
The Río Martín country of Teruel is a place of deep gorges and bare, honey-coloured hills, and Oliete and Estercuel are two of its tiny villages. The Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is a small shelter in a side ravine, named for the fig tree that grows at its mouth, and it holds paintings that belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, as protected by UNESCO. The pictures include the small red figures of the Levantine tradition, and the setting, under an overhang of golden rock, is a good place to sit and think about how few things have changed in the landscape.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
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Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
Castellote is one of those villages in the Teruel Maestrazgo that seems to have been built by people who wanted to be left alone. Its houses pile up beneath a great rock wall topped by the ruins of a castle associated with the Knights Templar, and the Guadalope river winds below on its way into the Santolea reservoir. The Abrigo del Barranco Hondo, a painted rock shelter in a deep ravine outside the village, is part of the extensive collection of Levantine rock art scattered through these mountains, with small figures in red ochre that have survived on the stone for millennia.
Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Barranco Hondo. Next is Coveta de la Cornisa.
Morella is one of the most dramatic towns in Spain: a walled medieval city wrapped around a conical hill, with a castle on the summit and its walls running unbroken around the base. It stands in the mountains of the Ports in the north of Castellón province, at around a thousand metres, and its silhouette, seen from the roads that climb toward it, is unforgettable. The Coveta de la Cornisa, the little cave of the ledge, lies in the hills about four kilometres away.
Read the complete Coveta de la Cornisa write-up.
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Coveta de la Cornisa, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Barranco Hondo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester comes up about 329 km into the recorded legs. Next is Los Estrechos I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Estrechos I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Los Estrechos I closes the day.
Los Estrechos I → Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester → Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → Coveta de la Cornisa is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Barranco Hondo → back through Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester → Los Estrechos I is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.