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 364 km round trip from Pajaroncillo - roughly 6 h 53 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cueva de la Peña de la morería, Rillo I 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. The line favours views over speed.
Villar del Humo is a village of a few hundred people tucked into the folds of the Serranía de Cuenca, a high limestone plateau of pine woods, gorges and rocky cliffs in the east of Castilla-La Mancha, and the surrounding rock shelters hold some of the finest prehistoric paintings in Spain. They belong to what is called Levantine rock art, a style of small, lively red figures painted in shallow shelters across the east of the peninsula, which UNESCO listed in 1998 as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. Hunters with bows, running animals and sometimes whole scenes appear on the walls, painted thousands of years ago by people whose names and languages we will never know.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de Selva Pascuala write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente de Selva Pascuala is where the day begins. 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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Cueva de la Peña de la morería comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rillo I.
The Señorío de Molina is a high, cold, sparsely populated tableland on the boundary of Guadalajara and Aragon, and it feels like it, with big skies, wheat and sheep, wide valleys and villages of stone. Rillo, five or six kilometres from Molina de Aragón, sits at about a thousand metres on this plateau, where winters are among the harshest in Spain and snow can lie for weeks. Molina has a reputation as one of the coldest towns in the country, but a rider in June finds only a dry, bright warmth.
Read the complete Rillo I write-up.
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about 182 km into the recorded legs you reach Rillo I. Next is back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la fuente de Selva Pascuala.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de Selva Pascuala write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la fuente de Selva Pascuala. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la fuente de Selva Pascuala → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Rillo I is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rillo I → back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Abrigo de la fuente de Selva Pascuala is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.