CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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310 km from Bezas to Bezas, about 5 h 08 of riding. On the way it passes Castellón de los machos, La Hoz de Vicente and back through Castellón de los machos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 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.
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Castellón de los machos comes up 70 km in. Next is La Hoz de Vicente.
The Cabriel is one of the few rivers in Spain that still runs clean and fast through a deep canyon, and the Hoz de Vicente stands on its upper stretch, where Cuenca meets Valencia. The Hoces del Cabriel are a natural park of limestone gorges, pine woods and river flats, with kingfishers, otters and, on the rock faces, griffon vultures. The Hoz de Vicente shelter is one of the painted places of this wild corner, a Levantine rock art site listed within the UNESCO group of the Mediterranean Basin.
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140 km in you reach La Hoz de Vicente. Next is back through Castellón de los machos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castellón de los machos write-up.
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back through Castellón de los machos, late in the day. 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.
Back at Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad. That is the ride.
Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad → Castellón de los machos is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Castellón de los machos → La Hoz de Vicente is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
La Hoz de Vicente → back through Castellón de los machos is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Castellón de los machos → Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.