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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296 km from Frías de Albarracín to Frías de Albarracín, about 6 h 56 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo, Barranco del Pajarejo, Cueva de Doña Clotilde and 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 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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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco del Pajarejo. Next is Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
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, about halfway. 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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Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol sits at 91 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
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Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
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back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Barranco del Pajarejo.
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Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
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about 220 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Barranco del Pajarejo. 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, 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.
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The route ends here after 296 km.
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 → Barranco del Pajarejo is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Pajarejo → Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol → back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde → back through Barranco del Pajarejo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Pajarejo → back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 48 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.