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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Villar del Humo it runs 357 km to Villar del Humo; allow about 5 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of 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. The line favours views over speed.
There are places in Spain that sound like names from a fairy tale, and Villar del Humo is one of them, the Village of Smoke. It is a hamlet of about three hundred and fifty people in the Serranía of Cuenca, where the pine forest begins to thicken and the Cabriel river carves gorges through the limestone. Marmalo is the name of the ravine nearby, and its painted shelters are among the major Levantine sites of inland Spain, listed with the UNESCO group of 1998.
Read the complete marmalo II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
marmalo II 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.
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Barrio del San Antón comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 178 km into the recorded legs 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 II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete marmalo II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at marmalo II. That is the ride.
marmalo II → Barrio del San Antón is 62 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 116 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 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Barrio del San Antón → marmalo II is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.