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 Tormón it runs 329 km to Tormón; allow about 6 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de Lázaro, 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.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Lázaro.
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 comes up about 37 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 67 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.
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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 150 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de Lázaro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Lázaro write-up.
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back through Abrigo de Lázaro comes up about 293 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol closes the day.
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.
Abrigo de Lázaro → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 30 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 Abrigo de Lázaro is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Lázaro → Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.