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 Teruel it runs 115 km to Teruel; allow about 2 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas, Ceja de Piezarrodilla and back through Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Teruel spent decades as the Spanish joke about forgotten provinces, until its people adopted the slogan Teruel existe, Teruel exists, and turned it into a political movement. Ride into the old centre and you will agree it exists rather vividly. The Torre del Salvador is one of its four great Mudéjar towers, built of brick and glazed ceramic in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by craftsmen trained in the Islamic tradition. The road, or rather a street, still passes through an archway at its base, and you can climb inside, between the outer and inner shells of the tower, up narrow stairs to the bells.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia del Salvador write-up.
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Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas.
Red sandstone is the first thing you notice. Between Albarracín, Bezas and Gea de Albarracín the ground turns the colour of rust, broken into towers, corridors and rounded boulders under a dense cover of maritime pine. This is the Pinares de Rodeno, a protected landscape in the Sierra de Albarracín, and its overhangs shelter some of the best-known Levantine rock paintings in Aragon, including pale and red bulls that seem far too large for the shallow hollows that hold them. The Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas is one of these shelters, its name borrowed from the shepherds' pens, parideras, where ewes were brought to lamb under the rock.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas write-up.
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Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ceja de Piezarrodilla.
The Ceja de Piezarrodilla is a rock shelter in the mountains of southern Teruel, near the village of Villel and the Rincón de Ademuz, a curious enclave of the Valencian region surrounded by Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha. Its paintings, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, include human figures and animals in the Levantine style, and they sit on the red sandstone that characterises this area. The landscape is rugged and dry, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and the valley of the Turia river, which flows south towards Valencia.
Read the complete Ceja de Piezarrodilla write-up.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Ceja de Piezarrodilla. Next is back through Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas, late in the day. Next is Torre de la iglesia del Salvador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Torre de la iglesia del Salvador write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Torre de la iglesia del Salvador. That is the ride.
Torre de la iglesia del Salvador → Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas → Ceja de Piezarrodilla is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ceja de Piezarrodilla → back through Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Paridera de las Tajadas → Torre de la iglesia del Salvador is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.