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 363 km round trip from Pajaroncillo - roughly 6 h 26 in the saddle. It goes by way of Barrio del Castillo, Cueva de la Peña de la morería, Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo and back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Villar del Humo is a village of a few hundred people in the Serranía de Cuenca, a high land of pine forest, limestone gorges and sparse villages that lies between the cities of Cuenca and Valencia. The Marmalo shelters nearby, of which this is the fourth, are among the most famous sites of Levantine rock art in the region, with painted figures of hunters, animals and scenes that archaeologists have studied for a century. They are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998, and the village has made them a point of local pride.
Read the complete marmalo IV write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
marmalo IV is where the day begins. Next is Barrio del Castillo.
Cuenca is built on a spur of rock between two gorges, and the Barrio del Castillo is its highest quarter, the old castle district at the narrow tip of the ridge. The Huécar river runs along one side and the Júcar along the other, each in a deep cleft with limestone cliffs, and the old town clings to the top between them like a ship's prow. The castle that gave the quarter its name has largely gone, though a gate and a few walls remain, and the Torre de Mangana, a clock tower that was once part of the fortress, stands nearby. The whole walled town is on the UNESCO list as an unusual example of a medieval fortress city that kept its shape.
Read the complete Barrio del Castillo write-up.
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Barrio del Castillo comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
The Sierra de Albarracín is a high, cold, empty land of pine forests, red sandstone and limestone, at well over a thousand metres, and it hides some of the most interesting prehistoric rock art in Spain. The Pinares de Rodeno, a protected landscape of pine forests and red sandstone outcrops near Albarracín, has shelters with paintings of bulls, deer and human figures, included in UNESCO's inscription of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Cueva de la Peña de la Morería is one of the sites in this region, near the villages of Bronchales and Orihuela del Tremedal, at the foot of the mountains.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Peña de la morería. 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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Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería sits at 199 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barrio del Castillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barrio del Castillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barrio del Castillo comes up about 306 km into the recorded legs. Next is marmalo IV.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete marmalo IV write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
marmalo IV closes the day.
marmalo IV → Barrio del Castillo is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barrio del Castillo → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería → back through Barrio del Castillo is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Barrio del Castillo → marmalo IV is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.