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 430 km to Villar del Humo; allow about 7 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of Barrio del Castillo, Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo, Torre de la iglesia de San Martín and back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 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 Barrio del Castillo.
Cuenca is built on a spur of rock between two gorges, and the Barrio del Castillo is its highest quarter, the old castle district at the narrow tip of the ridge. The Huécar river runs along one side and the Júcar along the other, each in a deep cleft with limestone cliffs, and the old town clings to the top between them like a ship's prow. The castle that gave the quarter its name has largely gone, though a gate and a few walls remain, and the Torre de Mangana, a clock tower that was once part of the fortress, stands nearby. The whole walled town is on the UNESCO list as an unusual example of a medieval fortress city that kept its shape.
Read the complete Barrio del Castillo write-up.
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Barrio del Castillo comes up about 61 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 176 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo. 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.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia de San Martín write-up.
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Torre de la iglesia de San Martín, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo sits at 252 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barrio del Castillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barrio del Castillo write-up.
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back through Barrio del Castillo comes up about 368 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Peña del Escrito 1 closes the day.
Peña del Escrito 1 → Barrio del Castillo is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barrio del Castillo → Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → Torre de la iglesia de San Martín is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Torre de la iglesia de San Martín → back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → back through Barrio del Castillo is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Barrio del Castillo → Peña del Escrito 1 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.