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 342 km round trip from Albarracín - roughly 5 h 39 in the saddle. The stops in between: Castellón de los machos, Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano and back through Castellón de los machos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Climbers have made Albarracín famous as well as painters. The Pinares de Rodeno, the red sandstone forest around the town, hold one of the best bouldering areas in Europe, and every year thousands of climbers come to scramble over the rounded blocks with their foam crash pads on their backs. The Abrigo del Toro Negro, the Black Bull shelter, lies four and a half kilometres from the town in the same stone, and its name probably comes from a painted bull, one of the animals that the prehistoric artists liked best. It belongs to the body of Mediterranean rock art protected by UNESCO since 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo del Toro Negro write-up.
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Abrigo del Toro Negro is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 170 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano. Next is back through Castellón de los machos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castellón de los machos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Castellón de los machos, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Toro Negro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Toro Negro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Toro Negro. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Toro Negro → Castellón de los machos is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Castellón de los machos → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → back through Castellón de los machos is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Castellón de los machos → Abrigo del Toro Negro is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.