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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346 km from Gea de Albarracín to Gea de Albarracín, about 6 h 38 of riding. On the way it passes Ceja de Piezarrodilla, 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Near Albarracín, the land turns red. The Pinares de Rodeno, a pine forest growing on russet sandstone, stretches along the road below the walled town, and the rocks are so full of paintings that the whole area is a kind of open gallery. The archer shelter is one of many painted overhangs, and the name, Abrigo del Arquero, refers to a small red figure drawing a bow. The art belongs to the Levantine tradition, with slim, active human figures hunting and gathering, and it is the reason this area is protected.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arquero de los Callejones Cerra write-up.
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Abrigo del Arquero de los Callejones Cerra is where the day begins. Next is Ceja de Piezarrodilla.
The Ceja de Piezarrodilla is a rock shelter in the mountains of southern Teruel, near the village of Villel and the Rincón de Ademuz, a curious enclave of the Valencian region surrounded by Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha. Its paintings, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, include human figures and animals in the Levantine style, and they sit on the red sandstone that characterises this area. The landscape is rugged and dry, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and the valley of the Turia river, which flows south towards Valencia.
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Ceja de Piezarrodilla comes up about 41 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.
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about 74 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.
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Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, about halfway. Next is back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador.
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Read the complete Torre de la iglesia del Salvador write-up.
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back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ceja de Piezarrodilla write-up.
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back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla comes up about 312 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Arquero de los Callejones Cerra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Arquero de los Callejones Cerra write-up.
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Abrigo del Arquero de los Callejones Cerra closes the day.
Abrigo del Arquero de los Callejones Cerra → Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ceja de Piezarrodilla → 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 Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla → Abrigo del Arquero de los Callejones Cerra is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.