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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From Albarracín it runs 147 km to Albarracín; allow about 3 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Barranco del Pajarejo, Torre de la iglesia del Salvador and back through Barranco del Pajarejo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The rock art in the Cueva de Doña Clotilde, in the pine forests outside Albarracín, is a little different from the typical Levantine scenes. Painted in white or pale colours rather than the usual red, the figures include schematic human shapes and animals, and they sit on the red sandstone of the Rodeno, a landscape of rust-coloured rocks and maritime pines that is now protected as a cultural park. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the Rodeno is full of painted shelters, several of which, like the bulls of the Prado del Navazo, can be visited along marked paths.
Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
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Cueva de Doña Clotilde is where the day begins. Next is Barranco del Pajarejo.
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 comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Torre de la iglesia del Salvador.
Teruel spent decades as the Spanish joke about forgotten provinces, until its people adopted the slogan Teruel existe, Teruel exists, and turned it into a political movement. Ride into the old centre and you will agree it exists rather vividly. The Torre del Salvador is one of its four great Mudéjar towers, built of brick and glazed ceramic in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by craftsmen trained in the Islamic tradition. The road, or rather a street, still passes through an archway at its base, and you can climb inside, between the outer and inner shells of the tower, up narrow stairs to the bells.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia del Salvador write-up.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. Next is back through 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 through Barranco del Pajarejo, late in the day. Next is Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de Doña Clotilde. That is the ride.
Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Barranco del Pajarejo is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Pajarejo → Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → back through Barranco del Pajarejo is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Pajarejo → Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.