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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348 km from Albarracín to Albarracín, about 6 h 41 of riding. The stops in between: Ceja de Piezarrodilla, Torre de la iglesia del Salvador, Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano and back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Las Balsillas means the little pools, and in a sandstone forest where rain drains away fast, a hollow that holds water is worth naming. What matters is the setting: red rock under dark pine, with a floor of needles that muffles every sound.
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Las Balsillas is where the day begins. Next is Ceja de Piezarrodilla.
The Ceja de Piezarrodilla is a rock shelter in the mountains of southern Teruel, near the village of Villel and the Rincón de Ademuz, a curious enclave of the Valencian region surrounded by Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha. Its paintings, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, include human figures and animals in the Levantine style, and they sit on the red sandstone that characterises this area. The landscape is rugged and dry, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and the valley of the Turia river, which flows south towards Valencia.
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Ceja de Piezarrodilla comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia del Salvador write-up.
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back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ceja de Piezarrodilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla comes up about 312 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Balsillas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Balsillas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Las Balsillas closes the day.
Las Balsillas → Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ceja de Piezarrodilla → Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ceja de Piezarrodilla → Las Balsillas is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.