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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149 km from Albarracín to Albarracín, about 3 h 34 of riding. On the way it passes 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.
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 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 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 74 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.
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back through Barranco del Pajarejo, 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 → Barranco del Pajarejo is 31 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 del Toro Negro is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.