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 128 km to Bezas; allow 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Red sandstone is the first thing you notice. Between Albarracín, Bezas and Gea de Albarracín the ground turns the colour of rust, broken into towers, corridors and rounded boulders under a dense cover of maritime pine. This is the Pinares de Rodeno, a protected landscape in the Sierra de Albarracín, and its overhangs shelter some of the best-known Levantine rock paintings in Aragon, including pale and red bulls that seem far too large for the shallow hollows that hold them. The Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas is one of these shelters, its name borrowed from the shepherds' pens, parideras, where ewes were brought to lamb under the rock.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas write-up.
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Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas 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.
Read the complete Ceja de Piezarrodilla write-up.
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back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas → 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 de la Paridera de las Tajadas is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.