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 267 km round trip from Villar del Humo - roughly 5 h 58 in the saddle. 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.
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.
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marmalo II 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.
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Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs 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.
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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 143 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 about 210 km into the recorded legs. 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.
marmalo II closes the day.
marmalo II → 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 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ceja de Piezarrodilla → back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 35 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 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → marmalo II is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.