CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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312 km from Jabaloyas to Jabaloyas, about 4 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Peña del Escrito II, La Hoz de Vicente and back through Peña del Escrito II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Peña del Escrito II.
The wording is a clue: Peña del Escrito means the rock that is written on, and that is an old local way of describing a shelter with painted figures. This one lies in the Serranía de Cuenca, near the small village of Villar del Humo, in a country of deep gorges, pine woods and limestone cliffs. The paintings belong to the Levantine tradition, red figures of animals and people, and the area is recognised by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin of the Iberian peninsula.
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Peña del Escrito II comes up 65 km in. Next is La Hoz de Vicente.
The Cabriel is one of the few rivers in Spain that still runs clean and fast through a deep canyon, and the Hoz de Vicente stands on its upper stretch, where Cuenca meets Valencia. The Hoces del Cabriel are a natural park of limestone gorges, pine woods and river flats, with kingfishers, otters and, on the rock faces, griffon vultures. The Hoz de Vicente shelter is one of the painted places of this wild corner, a Levantine rock art site listed within the UNESCO group of the Mediterranean Basin.
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129 km in you reach La Hoz de Vicente. Next is back through Peña del Escrito II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peña del Escrito II write-up.
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back through Peña del Escrito II, late in the day. Next is Barranco del Pajarejo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranco del Pajarejo. That is the ride.
Barranco del Pajarejo → Peña del Escrito II is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peña del Escrito II → La Hoz de Vicente is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
La Hoz de Vicente → back through Peña del Escrito II is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Peña del Escrito II → Barranco del Pajarejo is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.