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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358 km from Frías de Albarracín to Frías de Albarracín, about 5 h 50 of riding. On the way it passes Castellón de los machos, Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano and back through Castellón de los machos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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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Cueva de la Peña de la morería is where the day begins. Next is Castellón de los machos.
High in the Serranía de Cuenca, among pine woods and sandstone outcrops near the village of Villar del Humo, prehistoric hunters painted figures on the rock shelters thousands of years ago. The site called Castellón de los Machos is one of a cluster in this area that belongs to the vast UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, which covers hundreds of painted shelters from Catalonia to Andalusia. The images here are small, reddish and stylised, and finding them takes patience and good eyes.
Read the complete Castellón de los machos write-up.
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Castellón de los machos comes up about 84 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 178 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano. Next is back through Castellón de los machos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castellón de los machos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Castellón de los machos, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de la Peña de la morería. That is the ride.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Castellón de los machos is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castellón de los machos → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → back through Castellón de los machos is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Castellón de los machos → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.