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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222 km from Frías de Albarracín to Frías de Albarracín, about 5 h 07 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo, Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol, Abrigo de Lázaro and back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol. 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 Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo.
Albarracín is a small walled town of rose-coloured stone, steep and narrow, built on a rocky bend of the Guadalaviar river in the Sierra de Albarracín, in the south of Teruel province. The Abrigo de la Fuente del Cabrerizo is a rock shelter about three kilometres away in the surrounding pine woods, in country of strangely red sandstone outcrops that locals call rodeno.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol.
The Sierra de Albarracín is one of the highest and emptiest corners of eastern Spain, a limestone and sandstone country at the headwaters of the Tagus and the Turia, and it holds an exceptional concentration of rock art. The Barranco de las Olivanas shelter is one of many painted sites in these hills, and it is part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO. The pictures of bulls and hunters belong to a tradition of red paintings made thousands of years ago, though the exact age is still debated, and the shelter is far from the nearest village, so reaching it takes planning and a walk.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol. Next is Abrigo de Lázaro.
Albarracín is built of the colour of the land. The village stands above a loop of the Guadalaviar river in a bowl of rust-red sandstone, with houses of pinkish plaster and timber balconies stepping up the slope and a long line of medieval walls climbing the ridge behind. It has a population of about a thousand and the look of a place preserved by being slightly out of the way, and it was declared a national monument as a whole. The Abrigo de Lázaro is under four kilometres off, in the pine woods of the Rodeno, the red rock that surrounds the town and has been painted by human hands for thousands of years.
Read the complete Abrigo de Lázaro write-up.
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Abrigo de Lázaro, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo comes up about 193 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería closes the day.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol → Abrigo de Lázaro is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Lázaro → back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol → back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.