CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Villar del Humo it runs 328 km to Villar del Humo; allow about 7 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón, Cueva de Doña Clotilde, Ceja de Piezarrodilla and back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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marmalo I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón.
Paridera is a shepherd's word: a stone pen where ewes give birth, sheltered from the wind. Above Tormón, a tiny village in the southern Sierra de Albarracín, one such overhang has given its name to a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, the Abrigo de la Paridera, part of the Levantine rock art sites the Iberian Peninsula shares under one UNESCO listing. The cliff here is rodeno, the red sandstone that gives this corner of Teruel its startling colour, eroded into towers, arches and overhangs among the pine trees.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón write-up.
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Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón comes up 36 km in. Next is Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
The rock art in the Cueva de Doña Clotilde, in the pine forests outside Albarracín, is a little different from the typical Levantine scenes. Painted in white or pale colours rather than the usual red, the figures include schematic human shapes and animals, and they sit on the red sandstone of the Rodeno, a landscape of rust-coloured rocks and maritime pines that is now protected as a cultural park. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the Rodeno is full of painted shelters, several of which, like the bulls of the Prado del Navazo, can be visited along marked paths.
Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
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72 km in you reach Cueva de Doña Clotilde. 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.
Read the complete Ceja de Piezarrodilla write-up.
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Ceja de Piezarrodilla, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
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Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
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back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón comes up 180 km in. Next is marmalo I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete marmalo I write-up.
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marmalo I closes the day.
marmalo I → Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ceja de Piezarrodilla → back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde → back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → marmalo I is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.