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 321 km round trip from Cuenca - roughly 5 h 45 in the saddle. On the way it passes La Peña del Castellar, Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano and back through La Peña del Castellar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Cuenca is built on a spur of rock between two gorges, and the Barrio del Castillo is its highest quarter, the old castle district at the narrow tip of the ridge. The Huécar river runs along one side and the Júcar along the other, each in a deep cleft with limestone cliffs, and the old town clings to the top between them like a ship's prow. The castle that gave the quarter its name has largely gone, though a gate and a few walls remain, and the Torre de Mangana, a clock tower that was once part of the fortress, stands nearby. The whole walled town is on the UNESCO list as an unusual example of a medieval fortress city that kept its shape.
Read the complete Barrio del Castillo write-up.
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Barrio del Castillo is where the day begins. Next is La Peña del Castellar.
Villar del Humo is a tiny village in the Serranía of Cuenca, the high, forested mountain country east of the city of Cuenca. Around it, sandstone outcrops rise from pine forests, and on their faces prehistoric painters left images of animals and people. The Peña del Escrito and La Peña del Castellar are among the most important shelters here, and they are part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings include deer, horses and human figures, some in the dynamic Levantine style and others more schematic.
Read the complete La Peña del Castellar write-up.
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La Peña del Castellar comes up about 85 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 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano. Next is back through La Peña del Castellar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Peña del Castellar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La Peña del Castellar, late in the day. Next is Barrio del Castillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barrio del Castillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barrio del Castillo. That is the ride.
Barrio del Castillo → La Peña del Castellar is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
La Peña del Castellar → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → back through La Peña del Castellar is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Peña del Castellar → Barrio del Castillo is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.