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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272 km from Villar del Humo to Villar del Humo, about 5 h 37 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón, Cueva de Doña Clotilde, Torre de la iglesia de San Martín and back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 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 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
The rock art in the Cueva de Doña Clotilde, in the pine forests outside Albarracín, is a little different from the typical Levantine scenes. Painted in white or pale colours rather than the usual red, the figures include schematic human shapes and animals, and they sit on the red sandstone of the Rodeno, a landscape of rust-coloured rocks and maritime pines that is now protected as a cultural park. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the Rodeno is full of painted shelters, several of which, like the bulls of the Prado del Navazo, can be visited along marked paths.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de Doña Clotilde. Next is Torre de la iglesia de San Martín.
Teruel is a small provincial capital high on the Aragonese plateau, and its skyline is made of Mudéjar towers, built by Muslim craftsmen working for Christian patrons in brick and glazed ceramic tiles. The tower of San Martín, dating to the early fourteenth century, is one of the finest, a square tower straddling a street, so that traffic passes through an arch at its base. With the other Mudéjar towers of the city and the cathedral, it forms part of the World Heritage listing of Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon.
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Torre de la iglesia de San Martín, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
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Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
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back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde sits at 155 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. 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.
marmalo V closes the day.
marmalo V → Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón → Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Torre de la iglesia de San Martín is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia de San Martín → back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde → back through Abrigo de la Paridera de Tormón is 35 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 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.