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 110 km round trip from Tormón - roughly 2 h 23 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad, Torre de la iglesia de San Martín and back through Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Ceja de Piezarrodilla is a rock shelter in the mountains of southern Teruel, near the village of Villel and the Rincón de Ademuz, a curious enclave of the Valencian region surrounded by Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha. Its paintings, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, include human figures and animals in the Levantine style, and they sit on the red sandstone that characterises this area. The landscape is rugged and dry, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and the valley of the Turia river, which flows south towards Valencia.
Read the complete Ceja de Piezarrodilla write-up.
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Ceja de Piezarrodilla is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad.
Albarracín is the town every Spaniard has a photograph of, and with good reason. Its pink-ochre walls climb a rocky spur above a bend in the Guadalaviar river, a medieval fortress-town whose streets are so narrow and steep that cars were long ago banished from the old quarter. Not far off, the Pinares de Rodeno, a forest of pines growing on red sandstone, hides dozens of shelters with prehistoric paintings, also on the World Heritage list. The paridera of the label is a shepherd's stone pen, a humble relic of a pastoral world that endured in these hills for centuries.
Read the complete Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad write-up.
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Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Torre de la iglesia de San Martín.
Teruel is a small provincial capital high on the Aragonese plateau, and its skyline is made of Mudéjar towers, built by Muslim craftsmen working for Christian patrons in brick and glazed ceramic tiles. The tower of San Martín, dating to the early fourteenth century, is one of the finest, a square tower straddling a street, so that traffic passes through an arch at its base. With the other Mudéjar towers of the city and the cathedral, it forms part of the World Heritage listing of Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia de San Martín write-up.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Torre de la iglesia de San Martín. Next is back through Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad, late in the day. Next is Ceja de Piezarrodilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ceja de Piezarrodilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ceja de Piezarrodilla. That is the ride.
Ceja de Piezarrodilla → Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad → Torre de la iglesia de San Martín is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia de San Martín → back through Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo Contiguo a la Paridera de las Tajad → Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.