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 321 km round trip from Teruel - roughly 5 h 12 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, La Peña del Castellar and back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano.
High in the interior of Valencia province, where the coastal orange groves give way to limestone plateaus and pine forest, the village of Titaguas sits on the road towards the Rincón de Ademuz. Close by lies the Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the hundreds of sites that make up the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano write-up.
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Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Peña del Castellar.
Villar del Humo is a tiny village in the Serranía of Cuenca, the high, forested mountain country east of the city of Cuenca. Around it, sandstone outcrops rise from pine forests, and on their faces prehistoric painters left images of animals and people. The Peña del Escrito and La Peña del Castellar are among the most important shelters here, and they are part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings include deer, horses and human figures, some in the dynamic Levantine style and others more schematic.
Read the complete La Peña del Castellar write-up.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach La Peña del Castellar. Next is back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, late in the day. 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.
Back at Torre e iglesia de San Pedro. That is the ride.
Torre e iglesia de San Pedro → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → La Peña del Castellar is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Peña del Castellar → back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → Torre e iglesia de San Pedro is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.