CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 402 km round trip from Villar del Humo - roughly 7 h 18 in the saddle. The stops in between: Barrio del San Antón, Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo and back through Barrio del San Antón. 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.
The Serranía de Cuenca does not advertise itself, and that is half its appeal. Marmalo lies in the south-eastern corner of Cuenca province, where the high limestone plateau begins to break up into pine-covered ridges and gorges as it falls toward the Cabriel river and the border with Valencia. Villar del Humo, a village of only a few hundred people, is the nearest settlement of any note, and the shelters around it hold Levantine rock paintings, small, vivid figures of hunters and animals in red, a tradition UNESCO lists among Europe's major rock art. Marmalo I is one of several sites here, and there are more nearby.
Read the complete marmalo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
marmalo I is where the day begins. Next is Barrio del San Antón.
Cuenca stands on a spur of rock between two gorges, and the Barrio de San Antón is the part of the old city that most visitors miss. The upper town has the cathedral and the famous Casas Colgadas, the hanging houses that overhang the Huécar gorge, and it gets all the attention. San Antón lies lower, near the junction where the Huécar meets the Júcar, and its streets are quieter and more residential. The whole walled town was inscribed by UNESCO in 1996 as an outstanding example of a medieval fortified city adapted to a difficult site.
Read the complete Barrio del San Antón write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barrio del San Antón comes up 78 km in. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
157 km in you reach Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo. Next is back through Barrio del San Antón.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barrio del San Antón write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barrio del San Antón, late in the day. Next is marmalo I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete marmalo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at marmalo I. That is the ride.
marmalo I → Barrio del San Antón is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barrio del San Antón → Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → back through Barrio del San Antón is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Barrio del San Antón → marmalo I is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.