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 Frías de Albarracín it runs 210 km to Frías de Albarracín; allow about 4 h 45 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo, Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol, Torre de la iglesia del Salvador 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 line favours views over speed.
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 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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Torre de la iglesia del Salvador, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol sits at 109 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo comes up about 181 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 → Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → back through Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 39 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.