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 328 km round trip from Tormón - roughly 6 h 27 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cueva de Doña Clotilde, Cueva de la Peña de la morería, Castellón de los machos 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Teruel is one of the emptiest provinces in Europe, and it is one of the best for riders who like to be alone. Around the headwaters of the Turia the land is high, dry and broken into long ridges, with pine forests, red clay and wide sky. The white goats of the shelter's name belong to a world of shepherding and rock painting, as the paintings here are in the Levantine style, with figures of animals in red pigment, and this is one of many shelters in the region.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas write-up.
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Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
The rock art in the Cueva de Doña Clotilde, in the pine forests outside Albarracín, is a little different from the typical Levantine scenes. Painted in white or pale colours rather than the usual red, the figures include schematic human shapes and animals, and they sit on the red sandstone of the Rodeno, a landscape of rust-coloured rocks and maritime pines that is now protected as a cultural park. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the Rodeno is full of painted shelters, several of which, like the bulls of the Prado del Navazo, can be visited along marked paths.
Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
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Cueva de Doña Clotilde comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Peña de la morería. Next is Castellón de los machos.
High in the Serranía de Cuenca, among pine woods and sandstone outcrops near the village of Villar del Humo, prehistoric hunters painted figures on the rock shelters thousands of years ago. The site called Castellón de los Machos is one of a cluster in this area that belongs to the vast UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, which covers hundreds of painted shelters from Catalonia to Andalusia. The images here are small, reddish and stylised, and finding them takes patience and good eyes.
Read the complete Castellón de los machos write-up.
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Castellón de los machos, about halfway. 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.
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back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería sits at 151 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde comes up about 293 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas closes the day.
Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas → Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Castellón de los machos is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castellón de los machos → back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería → back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.