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. It goes by way of 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.
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 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 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 → 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 V is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.