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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A 293 km round trip from Villar del Humo - roughly 5 h 27 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol and back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano comes up about 75 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 148 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol. Next is back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, late in the day. Next is La Peña del Castellar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Peña del Castellar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at La Peña del Castellar. That is the ride.
La Peña del Castellar → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → Abrigo de los Toros del Barranco de las Ol is 73 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 Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → La Peña del Castellar is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.