CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Fuentespalda it runs 288 km to Fuentespalda; allow about 7 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Roca dels moros, Val del Charco del Agua Amarga, Val de mamet I and back through Val del Charco del Agua Amarga. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Matarraña, in the far east of Teruel province, is often called the Tuscany of Aragon, and for once the comparison holds. Stone villages crown hilltops above olive groves and vineyards, rivers run clear through limestone gorges, and the light in the evening is honey-coloured. Valmayor is a ravine in the hills here, between Valderrobres, Fuentespalda and the Catalan border, and its shelters hold prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. As elsewhere, they are protected, and visits are best arranged through local tourist offices.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
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Valmayor V is where the day begins. Next is Roca dels moros.
In 1903, a young man from Calaceite named Juan Cabré, who would go on to become one of Spain's pioneering archaeologists, found painted figures of deer and other animals in a rock shelter in the Calapatá ravine, between Calaceite and Cretas. The Roca dels Moros became one of the first sites of Levantine rock art identified in Spain, and it helped open up a whole new field of study. Today it is part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and a visit here is a small pilgrimage to the beginnings of that story.
Read the complete Roca dels moros write-up.
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Roca dels moros comes up 33 km in. Next is Val del Charco del Agua Amarga.
Around ten kilometres from Alcañiz, in a dry ravine among olive groves and limestone ledges, a rock shelter holds one of the most celebrated scenes of Levantine rock art in Spain. The paintings at Val del Charco del Agua Amarga show archers in motion, hunting and perhaps fighting, their thin bodies drawn with a few confident strokes in red. Many experts consider it one of the finest examples in the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art, and seeing it, even protected behind a fence, gives a real jolt of connection to people who lived here several thousand years ago.
Read the complete Val del Charco del Agua Amarga write-up.
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65 km in you reach Val del Charco del Agua Amarga. Next is Val de mamet I.
The Ebro river cuts through Aragon in a wide, dry valley, and where it meets its tributaries the Segre and Cinca around Mequinenza it was dammed in the twentieth century to make long, narrow lakes among bare hills. Val de Mamet is a dry side valley in this country, with a shelter that holds prehistoric paintings. The surroundings are arid and open, with low limestone cliffs, thyme and rosemary scrub, and scattered pines and almonds, and the silence is broken mostly by the wind and the occasional hawk.
Read the complete Val de mamet I write-up.
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Val de mamet I, about halfway. Next is back through Val del Charco del Agua Amarga.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Val del Charco del Agua Amarga write-up.
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back through Val del Charco del Agua Amarga sits at 130 km, about halfway. Next is back through Roca dels moros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roca dels moros write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Roca dels moros comes up 163 km in. Next is Valmayor V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valmayor V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Valmayor V closes the day.
Valmayor V → Roca dels moros is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roca dels moros → Val del Charco del Agua Amarga is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Val del Charco del Agua Amarga → Val de mamet I is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Val de mamet I → back through Val del Charco del Agua Amarga is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Val del Charco del Agua Amarga → back through Roca dels moros is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roca dels moros → Valmayor V is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.