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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169 km from Villar del Humo to Villar del Humo, about 3 h 32 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón, Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas and back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
A map of the Serranía de Cuenca looks like a crumpled green blanket, and the best way to understand it is to ride across it. Marmalo, the painted ravine near Villar del Humo, is in the south of this region, where the pines open into fields and the drainage heads toward the Cabriel river. This is the third shelter in the group, and a good excuse to plan a whole day around the surrounding country.
Read the complete marmalo III write-up.
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marmalo III 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 about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas.
Albarracín is one of the loveliest villages in Spain, a town of pink-ochre houses on a rock bend above the Guadalaviar river, with medieval walls climbing the hill behind. The Sierra de Albarracín around it is high and cold, at about 1,200 metres, a land of pine forest, red sandstone outcrops called rodeno, and wide empty plateaus. The Guadalaviar, which becomes the Turia in Valencia, rises in these hills, and the Tagus and the Júcar are not far from their sources. The rock shelters of this region, including the Huerto de las Tajadas, hold some of the oldest paintings of the Levantine and Schematic styles, and they are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas write-up.
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about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón, late in the day. Next is marmalo III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete marmalo III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at marmalo III. That is the ride.
marmalo III → 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 → Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Huerto de las Tajadas → back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → marmalo III is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.