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 260 km round trip from Valdeltormo - roughly 5 h 40 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abrigo del Plano del Pulido, Abric del mas de Barberà, Los Estrechos I and back through Abric del mas de Barberà. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bajo Aragón has the look of a country that works for a living. Olive trees climb the terraces in tidy grey-green rows, almond orchards fill the gaps, and every village seems to own a mill or a cooperative that presses oil under a protected regional name. The Punta del Alcañizano sits in the rolling hills of the Matarraña district, near Valdeltormo and Mazaleón, two villages of a few hundred people each, on the southern edge of Aragón where the land begins to tilt toward Catalonia and the Ebro.
Read the complete Punta del Alcañizano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Punta del Alcañizano is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Plano del Pulido.
South of Caspe, the lower Aragón country is a dry, sculpted landscape of ochre hills, flat-topped mesas and gullies cut into soft sandstone, with almond and olive groves clinging to the valley floors. In these sandstone outcrops, prehistoric people found shelter and left paintings, and the Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is one of the rock shelters of the area included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The painted figures, in the reddish tones of Levantine art, are small and faded, and as at most of these sites, access is controlled and visits may need to be arranged in advance.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
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Abrigo del Plano del Pulido comes up about 48 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 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas de Barberà. Next is Los Estrechos I.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del mas de Barberà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del mas de Barberà write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Plano del Pulido.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Plano del Pulido write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo del Plano del Pulido comes up about 212 km into the recorded legs. Next is Punta del Alcañizano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Punta del Alcañizano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Punta del Alcañizano closes the day.
Punta del Alcañizano → Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Plano del Pulido → Abric del mas de Barberà is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas de Barberà → Los Estrechos I is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Estrechos I → back through Abric del mas de Barberà is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del mas de Barberà → back through Abrigo del Plano del Pulido is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Plano del Pulido → Punta del Alcañizano is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.