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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From Bezas it runs 376 km to Bezas; allow about 6 h 56 of riding. It goes by way of Torre de la iglesia de San Martín, Cueva de la Peña de la morería, Castellón de los machos and back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Albarracín is the town every Spaniard has a photograph of, and with good reason. Its pink-ochre walls climb a rocky spur above a bend in the Guadalaviar river, a medieval fortress-town whose streets are so narrow and steep that cars were long ago banished from the old quarter. Not far off, the Pinares de Rodeno, a forest of pines growing on red sandstone, hides dozens of shelters with prehistoric paintings, also on the World Heritage list. The paridera of the label is a shepherd's stone pen, a humble relic of a pastoral world that endured in these hills for centuries.
Read the complete Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad write-up.
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Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad is where the day begins. Next is Torre de la iglesia de San Martín.
Teruel is a small provincial capital high on the Aragonese plateau, and its skyline is made of Mudéjar towers, built by Muslim craftsmen working for Christian patrons in brick and glazed ceramic tiles. The tower of San Martín, dating to the early fourteenth century, is one of the finest, a square tower straddling a street, so that traffic passes through an arch at its base. With the other Mudéjar towers of the city and the cathedral, it forms part of the World Heritage listing of Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia de San Martín write-up.
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Torre de la iglesia de San Martín comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
The Sierra de Albarracín is a high, cold, empty land of pine forests, red sandstone and limestone, at well over a thousand metres, and it hides some of the most interesting prehistoric rock art in Spain. The Pinares de Rodeno, a protected landscape of pine forests and red sandstone outcrops near Albarracín, has shelters with paintings of bulls, deer and human figures, included in UNESCO's inscription of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Cueva de la Peña de la Morería is one of the sites in this region, near the villages of Bronchales and Orihuela del Tremedal, at the foot of the mountains.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Peña de la morería. Next is Castellón de los machos.
High in the Serranía de Cuenca, among pine woods and sandstone outcrops near the village of Villar del Humo, prehistoric hunters painted figures on the rock shelters thousands of years ago. The site called Castellón de los Machos is one of a cluster in this area that belongs to the vast UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, which covers hundreds of painted shelters from Catalonia to Andalusia. The images here are small, reddish and stylised, and finding them takes patience and good eyes.
Read the complete Castellón de los machos write-up.
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Castellón de los machos, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
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Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
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back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería sits at 197 km, about halfway. Next is back through Torre de la iglesia de San Martín.
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Read the complete Torre de la iglesia de San Martín write-up.
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back through Torre de la iglesia de San Martín comes up about 349 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad closes the day.
Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad → Torre de la iglesia de San Martín is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia de San Martín → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Castellón de los machos is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castellón de los machos → back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería → back through Torre de la iglesia de San Martín is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Torre de la iglesia de San Martín → Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.