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 Albarracín it runs 150 km to Albarracín; allow about 3 h 35 of riding. The stops in between: Barranco del Pajarejo, Torre de la iglesia del Salvador and back through Barranco del Pajarejo. 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 Barranco del Pajarejo.
Red rock, dark pines and a sky that seems higher than it should be: that is the country south of Albarracín, where the Barranco del Pajarejo cuts into the sandstone. Geologists call this stone rodeno, a coarse red sandstone that weathers into towers, overhangs and smooth shelters, and prehistoric people used those shelters as canvases. The Pinares de Rodeno protected landscape around Albarracín holds a well-known group of painted shelters with bulls, deer and human figures in white and red, and this gully is part of that wider area, quiet and seldom visited.
Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
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Barranco del Pajarejo 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.
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 back through Barranco del Pajarejo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranco del Pajarejo, late in the day. 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.
Back at Abrigo de Lázaro. That is the ride.
Abrigo de Lázaro → Barranco del Pajarejo is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Pajarejo → Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → back through Barranco del Pajarejo is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Pajarejo → Abrigo de Lázaro is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.