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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347 km from Tuéjar to Tuéjar, about 6 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of La Peña del Castellar, Barrio Tiradores and back through La Peña del Castellar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Valencia hinterland hides one of Europe's oldest art galleries in the cracks of its limestone. Corral de Silla is one of the rock shelters of the Mediterranean Basin rock art, a group of sites in eastern Spain that UNESCO listed in 1998. The paintings are in the Levantine style, small, lively figures of archers, deer and wild goats in red or black pigment, and are thought to be thousands of years old, with the exact dates still debated by specialists. Access to such shelters is often controlled, and many are reached only on foot, so it is worth checking before arriving.
Read the complete El Corral de Silla- Abric l write-up.
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El Corral de Silla- Abric l is where the day begins. Next is La Peña del Castellar.
Villar del Humo is a tiny village in the Serranía of Cuenca, the high, forested mountain country east of the city of Cuenca. Around it, sandstone outcrops rise from pine forests, and on their faces prehistoric painters left images of animals and people. The Peña del Escrito and La Peña del Castellar are among the most important shelters here, and they are part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings include deer, horses and human figures, some in the dynamic Levantine style and others more schematic.
Read the complete La Peña del Castellar write-up.
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La Peña del Castellar comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barrio Tiradores.
Tiradores is one of Cuenca's old quarters, a slice of the hillside town where the steep lanes climb between tall, narrow houses and the sound is mostly footsteps and swifts. It is not a sight in the sense of a single monument. It is a neighbourhood, and that is why it is worth the effort: Cuenca's famous gorge-edge silhouette is made of ordinary houses like these, stuck onto the rock with extraordinary stubbornness, and the people who live here still carry their shopping up the hill.
Read the complete Barrio Tiradores write-up.
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about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Barrio Tiradores. Next is back through La Peña del Castellar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Peña del Castellar write-up.
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back through La Peña del Castellar, late in the day. Next is El Corral de Silla- Abric l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Corral de Silla- Abric l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at El Corral de Silla- Abric l. That is the ride.
El Corral de Silla- Abric l → La Peña del Castellar is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
La Peña del Castellar → Barrio Tiradores is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Barrio Tiradores → back through La Peña del Castellar is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through La Peña del Castellar → El Corral de Silla- Abric l is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.