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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361 km from Teruel to Teruel, about 6 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Cueva de Doña Clotilde, Castellón de los machos, Barrio del Castillo and back through Castellón de los machos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Teruel has a legend, and the legend has a tomb, and the tomb stands next to the church marked here. The tower of San Pedro was built in the Mudéjar style, the art of Muslim craftsmen working for Christian patrons, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Brick, glazed ceramic and geometric patterns that look like woven cloth cover its surface. Together with the other towers of Teruel and a handful of buildings across Aragon, it is part of the Mudéjar Architecture group that UNESCO inscribed in 1986 and extended later.
Read the complete Torre e iglesia de San Pedro write-up.
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Torre e iglesia de San Pedro is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
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Cueva de Doña Clotilde comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Castellón de los machos.
High in the Serranía de Cuenca, among pine woods and sandstone outcrops near the village of Villar del Humo, prehistoric hunters painted figures on the rock shelters thousands of years ago. The site called Castellón de los Machos is one of a cluster in this area that belongs to the vast UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, which covers hundreds of painted shelters from Catalonia to Andalusia. The images here are small, reddish and stylised, and finding them takes patience and good eyes.
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about 117 km into the recorded legs you reach Castellón de los machos. 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.
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Barrio del Castillo, about halfway. Next is back through Castellón de los machos.
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Read the complete Castellón de los machos write-up.
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back through Castellón de los machos sits at 222 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Doña Clotilde write-up.
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back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde comes up about 317 km into the recorded legs. Next is Torre e iglesia de San Pedro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Torre e iglesia de San Pedro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Torre e iglesia de San Pedro closes the day.
Torre e iglesia de San Pedro → Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Castellón de los machos is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Castellón de los machos → Barrio del Castillo is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barrio del Castillo → back through Castellón de los machos is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castellón de los machos → back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cueva de Doña Clotilde → Torre e iglesia de San Pedro is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.