CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 301 km round trip from Tormón - roughly 4 h 52 in the saddle. It goes by way of marmalo IV, La Hoz de Vicente and back through marmalo IV. 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.
Paridera is a shepherd's word: a stone pen where ewes give birth, sheltered from the wind. Above Tormón, a tiny village in the southern Sierra de Albarracín, one such overhang has given its name to a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, the Abrigo de la Paridera, part of the Levantine rock art sites the Iberian Peninsula shares under one UNESCO listing. The cliff here is rodeno, the red sandstone that gives this corner of Teruel its startling colour, eroded into towers, arches and overhangs among the pine trees.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón write-up.
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Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is where the day begins. Next is marmalo IV.
Villar del Humo is a village of a few hundred people in the Serranía de Cuenca, a high land of pine forest, limestone gorges and sparse villages that lies between the cities of Cuenca and Valencia. The Marmalo shelters nearby, of which this is the fourth, are among the most famous sites of Levantine rock art in the region, with painted figures of hunters, animals and scenes that archaeologists have studied for a century. They are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998, and the village has made them a point of local pride.
Read the complete marmalo IV write-up.
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marmalo IV comes up 66 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.
Read the complete La Hoz de Vicente write-up.
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131 km in you reach La Hoz de Vicente. Next is back through marmalo IV.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete marmalo IV write-up.
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back through marmalo IV, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → marmalo IV is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
marmalo IV → 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 marmalo IV is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through marmalo IV → Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.