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 386 km round trip from Albalate del Arzobispo - roughly 8 h 15 in the saddle. On the way it passes La Coquinera, friso Abierto del Pudial, Coveta de la Cornisa and back through friso Abierto del Pudial. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
There is a moment on the road to Albalate del Arzobispo when the plateau seems to open and a river gorge appears below, and that is the valley of the Martín, one of the hidden corners of Teruel. The river has cut a deep, winding canyon through the limestone of the Bajo Aragón, and the villages that line it, Albalate, Ariño, Alloza, have been farming and mining here for centuries. The Recodo de los Chaparros, the bend of the holm oaks, is a shelter in this country, and it belongs to the group that makes the Río Martín one of Aragon's cultural parks.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros I write-up.
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Recodo de los Chaparros I is where the day begins. Next is La Coquinera.
You reach La Coquinera through some of the emptiest country in Spain. The rock shelter lies in the hills of the Río Martín Cultural Park, in the triangle between Oliete, Estercuel and Alacón, where the Martín river and its side ravines have sliced the Teruel plateau into terraces, cliffs and narrow gorges. The paintings here belong to the same Mediterranean tradition as the dozens of other panels in the park, figures of animals and people in ochre red, small enough that you have to stand close and let your eyes adjust before they emerge from the stone.
Read the complete La Coquinera write-up.
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La Coquinera comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is friso Abierto del Pudial.
Deep in the Maestrazgo of Teruel, where the Guadalope river carves its way between limestone walls, the rock shelters around Castellote and Molinos hold painted figures left by prehistoric communities. The Friso Abierto del Pudial is one of them, an open frieze on a sheltered rock face, part of the extraordinary chain of Levantine art sites listed by UNESCO. The figures are faint, and visiting typically means a walk on rough ground, but the setting alone is worth the effort.
Read the complete friso Abierto del Pudial write-up.
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about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach friso Abierto del Pudial. 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 friso Abierto del Pudial.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete friso Abierto del Pudial write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through friso Abierto del Pudial sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through La Coquinera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Coquinera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La Coquinera comes up about 337 km into the recorded legs. Next is Recodo de los Chaparros I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Recodo de los Chaparros I closes the day.
Recodo de los Chaparros I → La Coquinera is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Coquinera → friso Abierto del Pudial is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
friso Abierto del Pudial → Coveta de la Cornisa is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de la Cornisa → back through friso Abierto del Pudial is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through friso Abierto del Pudial → back through La Coquinera is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Coquinera → Recodo de los Chaparros I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.