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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311 km from Pajaroncillo to Pajaroncillo, about 5 h 34 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón, El Corral de Silla- Abric l 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. 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.
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marmalo IV 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 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Corral de Silla- Abric l.
The Valencia hinterland hides one of Europe's oldest art galleries in the cracks of its limestone. Corral de Silla is one of the rock shelters of the Mediterranean Basin rock art, a group of sites in eastern Spain that UNESCO listed in 1998. The paintings are in the Levantine style, small, lively figures of archers, deer and wild goats in red or black pigment, and are thought to be thousands of years old, with the exact dates still debated by specialists. Access to such shelters is often controlled, and many are reached only on foot, so it is worth checking before arriving.
Read the complete El Corral de Silla- Abric l write-up.
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about 158 km into the recorded legs you reach El Corral de Silla- Abric l. 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, late in the day. 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.
Back at marmalo IV. That is the ride.
marmalo IV → Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → El Corral de Silla- Abric l is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
El Corral de Silla- Abric l → back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → marmalo IV is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.