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 128 km round trip from Bezas - roughly 3 h 03 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cerrada del Tío Jorge, Torre de la iglesia del Salvador and back through Cerrada del Tío Jorge. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Albarracín is one of the loveliest villages in Spain, a town of pink-ochre houses on a rock bend above the Guadalaviar river, with medieval walls climbing the hill behind. The Sierra de Albarracín around it is high and cold, at about 1,200 metres, a land of pine forest, red sandstone outcrops called rodeno, and wide empty plateaus. The Guadalaviar, which becomes the Turia in Valencia, rises in these hills, and the Tagus and the Júcar are not far from their sources. The rock shelters of this region, including the Huerto de las Tajadas, hold some of the oldest paintings of the Levantine and Schematic styles, and they are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas write-up.
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Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas is where the day begins. Next is Cerrada del Tío Jorge.
A cerrada, in the dry uplands of Teruel and Cuenca, is a place where the land closes in: a narrow gorge, a pinch in the valley wall, the sort of spot where a shepherd could shut a flock in for the night and be done. Tío Jorge, Uncle George, is one of those anonymous local names that outlast any record of who he was.
Read the complete Cerrada del Tío Jorge write-up.
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Cerrada del Tío Jorge comes up about 31 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 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. Next is back through Cerrada del Tío Jorge.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cerrada del Tío Jorge write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cerrada del Tío Jorge, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas → Cerrada del Tío Jorge is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cerrada del Tío Jorge → 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 → back through Cerrada del Tío Jorge is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cerrada del Tío Jorge → Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.