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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A 364 km round trip from Pajaroncillo - roughly 6 h 53 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cueva de la Peña de la morería, Rillo I and back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Selva Pascuala is the name of a patch of pine and rock in the Serranía de Cuenca, above the village of Villar del Humo, and it is the name by which one of the best-known groups of Levantine rock paintings is known. The figures were painted in a rock shelter by people who lived by hunting and gathering, and perhaps by the first herding, some six to ten thousand years ago, although dating the pigment is hard and scholars still argue about it. The paintings show animals, including deer and wild goats, and human figures, small and lively, painted in a deep red that has survived because the shelter's overhang kept the rain off.
Read the complete Selva Pascuala write-up.
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Selva Pascuala is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
The Sierra de Albarracín is a high, cold, empty land of pine forests, red sandstone and limestone, at well over a thousand metres, and it hides some of the most interesting prehistoric rock art in Spain. The Pinares de Rodeno, a protected landscape of pine forests and red sandstone outcrops near Albarracín, has shelters with paintings of bulls, deer and human figures, included in UNESCO's inscription of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Cueva de la Peña de la Morería is one of the sites in this region, near the villages of Bronchales and Orihuela del Tremedal, at the foot of the mountains.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
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Cueva de la Peña de la morería comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rillo I.
The Señorío de Molina is a high, cold, sparsely populated tableland on the boundary of Guadalajara and Aragon, and it feels like it, with big skies, wheat and sheep, wide valleys and villages of stone. Rillo, five or six kilometres from Molina de Aragón, sits at about a thousand metres on this plateau, where winters are among the harshest in Spain and snow can lie for weeks. Molina has a reputation as one of the coldest towns in the country, but a rider in June finds only a dry, bright warmth.
Read the complete Rillo I write-up.
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about 182 km into the recorded legs you reach Rillo I. Next is back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería, late in the day. Next is Selva Pascuala.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Selva Pascuala write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Selva Pascuala. That is the ride.
Selva Pascuala → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Rillo I is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rillo I → back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Selva Pascuala is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.