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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357 km from Villar del Humo to Villar del Humo, 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Autumn is the season for this part of Cuenca, when people with baskets disappear into the pine woods in search of mushrooms. Marmalo V is another of the painted shelters scattered around Villar del Humo, a village of fewer than four hundred people on the south-eastern flank of the Serranía de Cuenca, where the high plateau breaks into forested ridges and the Cabriel river gathers its strength. The ride takes in the church tower of San Martín in Teruel as well, a long way off but tied to this one by a thread of Spanish rock art and old villages, so think of this stop as one chapter in a longer story.
Read the complete marmalo V write-up.
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marmalo V 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 V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete marmalo V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at marmalo V. That is the ride.
marmalo V → 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 V is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.