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 354 km round trip from Caspe - roughly 6 h 55 in the saddle. The stops in between: Los Chaparros, Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d and back through Los Chaparros. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Lower Aragon is a country of dry hills, olive groves and red earth, and in its ravines people painted on the rock thousands of years ago. Valcomuna is one of those rock art sites, between Alcañiz and Caspe near the village of Maella, part of the great family of painted shelters running down Spain's Mediterranean side that UNESCO listed as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The figures in this tradition are small and lively, archers, deer, goats and people in motion, painted in red and black under overhangs where the weather could not wash them away.
Read the complete Valcomuna write-up.
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Valcomuna is where the day begins. Next is Los Chaparros.
Albalate del Arzobispo takes its name from its former masters, the archbishops of Zaragoza, and from an Arabic word for a paved road, which suggests the place has been a crossing point for a very long time. It sits in the Bajo Aragón on the Río Martín, a river that has cut a deep, dry gorge through the limestone on its way to the Ebro, and the Los Chaparros shelter, the Holm-Oak Shelter, lies about five and a half kilometres from the town. It belongs to a group of painted shelters, in the Levantine style, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain and managed locally as a cultural park along the river.
Read the complete Los Chaparros write-up.
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Los Chaparros comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d.
The Guadalope river cuts a deep canyon through the limestone of the Maestrazgo in eastern Teruel, and the Abrigo del Arenal de la Fonseca lies in this wild country near the hamlet of Ladruñán, between the villages of Castellote and Cantavieja. It is one of the important rock-art shelters of Aragon, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art, with Levantine paintings of animals and human figures in red pigment on the rock. The setting is spectacular: a narrow gorge with towering cliffs, the river flowing below, and pine and holm oak clinging to the slopes. Access involves a walk, and the paintings are protected by a fence.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d write-up.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d. Next is back through Los Chaparros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Chaparros write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Los Chaparros, late in the day. Next is Valcomuna.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valcomuna write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Valcomuna. That is the ride.
Valcomuna → Los Chaparros is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Chaparros → Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Arenal de la fonseca ó Abrigo d → back through Los Chaparros is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Los Chaparros → Valcomuna is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.