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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 110 km round trip from Tormón - roughly 2 h 24 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas, Torre de la iglesia de San Martín and back through Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas.
Albarracín is one of the loveliest villages in Spain, a town of pink-ochre houses on a rock bend above the Guadalaviar river, with medieval walls climbing the hill behind. The Sierra de Albarracín around it is high and cold, at about 1,200 metres, a land of pine forest, red sandstone outcrops called rodeno, and wide empty plateaus. The Guadalaviar, which becomes the Turia in Valencia, rises in these hills, and the Tagus and the Júcar are not far from their sources. The rock shelters of this region, including the Huerto de las Tajadas, hold some of the oldest paintings of the Levantine and Schematic styles, and they are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Torre de la iglesia de San Martín.
Teruel is a small provincial capital high on the Aragonese plateau, and its skyline is made of Mudéjar towers, built by Muslim craftsmen working for Christian patrons in brick and glazed ceramic tiles. The tower of San Martín, dating to the early fourteenth century, is one of the finest, a square tower straddling a street, so that traffic passes through an arch at its base. With the other Mudéjar towers of the city and the cathedral, it forms part of the World Heritage listing of Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia de San Martín write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Torre de la iglesia de San Martín. Next is back through Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas, 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 → Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas → Torre de la iglesia de San Martín is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia de San Martín → back through Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas → Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.