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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329 km from Villar del Humo to Villar del Humo, about 5 h 53 of riding. It goes by way of Barranco del Pajarejo, El Corral de Silla- Abric l and back through Barranco del Pajarejo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The name Peña del Escrito means the written rock, and it is exactly that: a sandstone or limestone face in the pine country of the Serranía de Cuenca where prehistoric people painted. Like the other shelters around Villar del Humo, it is part of the eastern Spanish rock art that UNESCO recognised in 1998. Do not expect a single dramatic picture. The paintings here are small, and often faded, and part of the pleasure is working out what you are seeing: a bull, an archer, a line of dots, a figure that may be a person or may be only a stain.
Read the complete Peña del Escrito 1 write-up.
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Peña del Escrito 1 is where the day begins. Next is Barranco del Pajarejo.
Red rock, dark pines and a sky that seems higher than it should be: that is the country south of Albarracín, where the Barranco del Pajarejo cuts into the sandstone. Geologists call this stone rodeno, a coarse red sandstone that weathers into towers, overhangs and smooth shelters, and prehistoric people used those shelters as canvases. The Pinares de Rodeno protected landscape around Albarracín holds a well-known group of painted shelters with bulls, deer and human figures in white and red, and this gully is part of that wider area, quiet and seldom visited.
Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
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Barranco del Pajarejo comes up about 71 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 165 km into the recorded legs you reach El Corral de Silla- Abric l. Next is back through Barranco del Pajarejo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranco del Pajarejo, late in the day. Next is Peña del Escrito 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peña del Escrito 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Peña del Escrito 1. That is the ride.
Peña del Escrito 1 → Barranco del Pajarejo is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Pajarejo → El Corral de Silla- Abric l is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
El Corral de Silla- Abric l → back through Barranco del Pajarejo is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Barranco del Pajarejo → Peña del Escrito 1 is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.