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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297 km from Cuenca to Cuenca, about 4 h 48 of riding. It goes by way of marmalo V, Cueva de la Peña de la morería and back through marmalo V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Cuenca stands on a spur of rock between two gorges, and the Barrio de San Antón is the part of the old city that most visitors miss. The upper town has the cathedral and the famous Casas Colgadas, the hanging houses that overhang the Huécar gorge, and it gets all the attention. San Antón lies lower, near the junction where the Huécar meets the Júcar, and its streets are quieter and more residential. The whole walled town was inscribed by UNESCO in 1996 as an outstanding example of a medieval fortified city adapted to a difficult site.
Read the complete Barrio del San Antón write-up.
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Barrio del San Antón is where the day begins. Next is marmalo V.
Autumn is the season for this part of Cuenca, when people with baskets disappear into the pine woods in search of mushrooms. Marmalo V is another of the painted shelters scattered around Villar del Humo, a village of fewer than four hundred people on the south-eastern flank of the Serranía de Cuenca, where the high plateau breaks into forested ridges and the Cabriel river gathers its strength. The ride takes in the church tower of San Martín in Teruel as well, a long way off but tied to this one by a thread of Spanish rock art and old villages, so think of this stop as one chapter in a longer story.
Read the complete marmalo V write-up.
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marmalo V comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
The Sierra de Albarracín is a high, cold, empty land of pine forests, red sandstone and limestone, at well over a thousand metres, and it hides some of the most interesting prehistoric rock art in Spain. The Pinares de Rodeno, a protected landscape of pine forests and red sandstone outcrops near Albarracín, has shelters with paintings of bulls, deer and human figures, included in UNESCO's inscription of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Cueva de la Peña de la Morería is one of the sites in this region, near the villages of Bronchales and Orihuela del Tremedal, at the foot of the mountains.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
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about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Peña de la morería. Next is back through marmalo V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete marmalo V write-up.
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back through marmalo V, late in the day. Next is Barrio del San Antón.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barrio del San Antón write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barrio del San Antón. That is the ride.
Barrio del San Antón → marmalo V is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
marmalo V → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → back through marmalo V is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through marmalo V → Barrio del San Antón is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.