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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From Villar del Humo it runs 532 km to Villar del Humo; allow about 9 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón, Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, Abric mas de los Perez and Balma de la fabriqueta. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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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.
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Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano.
High in the interior of Valencia province, where the coastal orange groves give way to limestone plateaus and pine forest, the village of Titaguas sits on the road towards the Rincón de Ademuz. Close by lies the Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the hundreds of sites that make up the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
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about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano. Next is Abric mas de los Perez.
Between the Turia and the Palancia rivers, northwest of Valencia, the land rises into a maze of limestone mountains, pine forest and small villages that rarely see foreign visitors. The Abric del Mas de los Pérez is a rock shelter in the hills near Andilla, Viver and Alcublas, one of hundreds of painted sites in eastern Spain listed by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. These shelters were decorated by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago, and while some feature vivid hunting scenes, many are faint and hard to see without a trained eye. Respect any fences and signs, and never wet or touch the rock.
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Abric mas de los Perez, about halfway. Next is Balma de la fabriqueta.
The Serra Calderona is the green ridge that rises north-west of Valencia, separating the city's plain from the valleys of the interior. It is a natural park of pine forest, cork oak and rocky hills, close enough to the city for weekend walkers and riders, yet surprisingly wild once you get into it. The rock shelter of Balma de la Fabriqueta lies near the village of Olocau on its southern side, one of the painted shelters that make up the Levantine rock art inscribed by UNESCO. Access to many of these sites is restricted or guided, so check with the local tourist office before trying to visit.
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Balma de la fabriqueta sits at 193 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric mas de los Perez.
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back through Abric mas de los Perez comes up about 322 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano.
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about 401 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano. 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 V.
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Read the complete marmalo V write-up.
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The route ends here after 532 km.
marmalo V → Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → Abric mas de los Perez is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric mas de los Perez → Balma de la fabriqueta is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Balma de la fabriqueta → back through Abric mas de los Perez is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric mas de los Perez → back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 70 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 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.