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 339 km round trip from Rillo de Gallo - roughly 5 h 12 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cañada de marco, El Cerrao and back through Cañada de marco. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Rillo lies close to the river Gallo, and the Gallo has cut the Barranco de la Hoz, one of the great surprises of the Señorío de Molina. A flat, windswept plateau suddenly splits open into a canyon of pale rock, and tucked into the cleft is the sanctuary of the Virgen de la Hoz, a small shrine with a long tradition of pilgrimage. The Rillo II shelter lies on the plateau above, a little under seven kilometres from Molina de Aragón and a short distance from Corduente, which is the village closest to the gorge.
Read the complete Rillo II write-up.
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Rillo II is where the day begins. Next is Cañada de marco.
Calamocha has a reputation in Spain, and it is not for its nightlife. This town in the Jiloca valley of Teruel province is one of the coldest places in the country in winter, a high, open basin where the air pools at night and frost bites hard. In summer that same altitude makes it pleasant when the coast is sweltering. The Cañada de Marco is a site in the hills just outside town, and the name hints at the old drove roads, the cañadas, that once carried flocks of sheep across Aragon between summer and winter pastures.
Read the complete Cañada de marco write-up.
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Cañada de marco comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Cerrao.
The Río Martín is a modest river by Spanish standards, but it has carved one of the most interesting canyons in Aragon, and the Cultural Park that takes its name protects an extraordinary collection of rock art. El Cerrao is one of the shelters in that park, in the district of Montalbán in the province of Teruel, among cliffs of pale limestone above a dry valley. The paintings here belong to the Levantine tradition and are part of the group UNESCO inscribed in 1998.
Read the complete El Cerrao write-up.
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about 169 km into the recorded legs you reach El Cerrao. Next is back through Cañada de marco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañada de marco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cañada de marco, late in the day. Next is Rillo II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rillo II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rillo II. That is the ride.
Rillo II → Cañada de marco is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cañada de marco → El Cerrao is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Cerrao → back through Cañada de marco is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañada de marco → Rillo II is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.