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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110 km from Tormón to Tormón, about 2 h 24 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas, Torre de la iglesia de San Martín and back through Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
A cerrada, in the dry uplands of Teruel and Cuenca, is a place where the land closes in: a narrow gorge, a pinch in the valley wall, the sort of spot where a shepherd could shut a flock in for the night and be done. Tío Jorge, Uncle George, is one of those anonymous local names that outlast any record of who he was.
Read the complete Cerrada del Tío Jorge write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cerrada del Tío Jorge is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas.
Albarracín is one of the loveliest villages in Spain, a town of pink-ochre houses on a rock bend above the Guadalaviar river, with medieval walls climbing the hill behind. The Sierra de Albarracín around it is high and cold, at about 1,200 metres, a land of pine forest, red sandstone outcrops called rodeno, and wide empty plateaus. The Guadalaviar, which becomes the Turia in Valencia, rises in these hills, and the Tagus and the Júcar are not far from their sources. The rock shelters of this region, including the Huerto de las Tajadas, hold some of the oldest paintings of the Levantine and Schematic styles, and they are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas write-up.
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Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas 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 del Huerto de las Tajadas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas, late in the day. Next is Cerrada del Tío Jorge.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cerrada del Tío Jorge write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cerrada del Tío Jorge. That is the ride.
Cerrada del Tío Jorge → Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas → 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 del Huerto de las Tajadas is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas → Cerrada del Tío Jorge is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.