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 Albarracín it runs 350 km to Albarracín; allow about 6 h 45 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol, Torre de la iglesia del Salvador, Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano and back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. 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.
Albarracín is a small walled town of rose-coloured stone, steep and narrow, built on a rocky bend of the Guadalaviar river in the Sierra de Albarracín, in the south of Teruel province. The Abrigo de la Fuente del Cabrerizo is a rock shelter about three kilometres away in the surrounding pine woods, in country of strangely red sandstone outcrops that locals call rodeno.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol.
The Sierra de Albarracín is one of the highest and emptiest corners of eastern Spain, a limestone and sandstone country at the headwaters of the Tagus and the Turia, and it holds an exceptional concentration of rock art. The Barranco de las Olivanas shelter is one of many painted sites in these hills, and it is part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO. The pictures of bulls and hunters belong to a tradition of red paintings made thousands of years ago, though the exact age is still debated, and the shelter is far from the nearest village, so reaching it takes planning and a walk.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol write-up.
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Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol comes up about 43 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 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. Next is Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano.
High in the interior of Valencia province, where the coastal orange groves give way to limestone plateaus and pine forest, the village of Titaguas sits on the road towards the Rincón de Ademuz. Close by lies the Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the hundreds of sites that make up the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano write-up.
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Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, about halfway. Next is back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia del Salvador write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador sits at 168 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol comes up about 313 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo closes the day.
Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol → Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol → Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.