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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128 km from Bezas to Bezas, about 3 h 03 of riding. On the way it passes Ceja de Piezarrodilla, Torre de la iglesia del Salvador and back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla. 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 Ceja de Piezarrodilla.
The Ceja de Piezarrodilla is a rock shelter in the mountains of southern Teruel, near the village of Villel and the Rincón de Ademuz, a curious enclave of the Valencian region surrounded by Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha. Its paintings, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, include human figures and animals in the Levantine style, and they sit on the red sandstone that characterises this area. The landscape is rugged and dry, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and the valley of the Turia river, which flows south towards Valencia.
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Ceja de Piezarrodilla comes up about 32 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.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. Next is back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla, 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 → Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ceja de Piezarrodilla → Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla → Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.