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 349 km round trip from Albarracín - roughly 6 h 43 in the saddle. It goes by way of 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. The line favours views over speed.
Albarracín is built of the colour of the land. The village stands above a loop of the Guadalaviar river in a bowl of rust-red sandstone, with houses of pinkish plaster and timber balconies stepping up the slope and a long line of medieval walls climbing the ridge behind. It has a population of about a thousand and the look of a place preserved by being slightly out of the way, and it was declared a national monument as a whole. The Abrigo de Lázaro is under four kilometres off, in the pine woods of the Rodeno, the red rock that surrounds the town and has been painted by human hands for thousands of years.
Read the complete Abrigo de Lázaro write-up.
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Abrigo de Lázaro 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 42 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 75 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 167 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 Lázaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Lázaro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de Lázaro closes the day.
Abrigo de Lázaro → Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 42 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 39 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 Lázaro is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.