CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Titaguas it runs 284 km to Titaguas; allow about 5 h 03 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol, marmalo IV and back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
High in the interior of Valencia province, where the coastal orange groves give way to limestone plateaus and pine forest, the village of Titaguas sits on the road towards the Rincón de Ademuz. Close by lies the Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the hundreds of sites that make up the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano write-up.
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Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol.
The Sierra de Albarracín is one of the highest and emptiest corners of eastern Spain, a limestone and sandstone country at the headwaters of the Tagus and the Turia, and it holds an exceptional concentration of rock art. The Barranco de las Olivanas shelter is one of many painted sites in these hills, and it is part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO. The pictures of bulls and hunters belong to a tradition of red paintings made thousands of years ago, though the exact age is still debated, and the shelter is far from the nearest village, so reaching it takes planning and a walk.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol write-up.
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Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol comes up 62 km in. Next is marmalo IV.
Villar del Humo is a village of a few hundred people in the Serranía de Cuenca, a high land of pine forest, limestone gorges and sparse villages that lies between the cities of Cuenca and Valencia. The Marmalo shelters nearby, of which this is the fourth, are among the most famous sites of Levantine rock art in the region, with painted figures of hunters, animals and scenes that archaeologists have studied for a century. They are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998, and the village has made them a point of local pride.
Read the complete marmalo IV write-up.
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124 km in you reach marmalo IV. Next is back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol, late in the day. Next is Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano. That is the ride.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol → marmalo IV is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
marmalo IV → back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.