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 149 km round trip from Albarracín - roughly 3 h 34 in the saddle. The stops in between: Barranco del Pajarejo, Torre de la iglesia del Salvador and back through Barranco del Pajarejo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
If you stand in the Pinares de Rodeno on a late afternoon, the rock turns the colour of a brick oven and the pine trunks seem to glow against it. The shelter marked here, the Abrigo de las Figuras Diversas, lies in that sandstone forest less than five kilometres from Albarracín, and the name is an archaeologist's one: it simply says that the wall carries a mixed bag of painted figures. Humans, animals and abstract signs share the rock in the manner of the rock art of the Spanish Levant, which UNESCO listed together in 1998.
Read the complete Abriga de las figuras Diversas write-up.
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Abriga de las figuras Diversas is where the day begins. Next is Barranco del Pajarejo.
Red rock, dark pines and a sky that seems higher than it should be: that is the country south of Albarracín, where the Barranco del Pajarejo cuts into the sandstone. Geologists call this stone rodeno, a coarse red sandstone that weathers into towers, overhangs and smooth shelters, and prehistoric people used those shelters as canvases. The Pinares de Rodeno protected landscape around Albarracín holds a well-known group of painted shelters with bulls, deer and human figures in white and red, and this gully is part of that wider area, quiet and seldom visited.
Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
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Barranco del Pajarejo comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Torre de la iglesia del Salvador.
Teruel spent decades as the Spanish joke about forgotten provinces, until its people adopted the slogan Teruel existe, Teruel exists, and turned it into a political movement. Ride into the old centre and you will agree it exists rather vividly. The Torre del Salvador is one of its four great Mudéjar towers, built of brick and glazed ceramic in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by craftsmen trained in the Islamic tradition. The road, or rather a street, still passes through an archway at its base, and you can climb inside, between the outer and inner shells of the tower, up narrow stairs to the bells.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia del Salvador write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. Next is back through Barranco del Pajarejo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
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back through Barranco del Pajarejo, late in the day. Next is Abriga de las figuras Diversas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abriga de las figuras Diversas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abriga de las figuras Diversas. That is the ride.
Abriga de las figuras Diversas → Barranco del Pajarejo is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Pajarejo → Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → back through Barranco del Pajarejo is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Pajarejo → Abriga de las figuras Diversas is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.