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 322 km to Teruel; allow about 5 h 14 of riding. On the way it passes 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The first thing to know about Teruel is that it is cold. At about nine hundred metres on a high, bare plateau of eastern Spain, it has a reputation as one of the chilliest provincial capitals in the country, and in the winter of 1937 and 1938 the bitter weather turned the battle of Teruel, one of the bloodiest of the Civil War, into a freezing ordeal. The town is also one of the loveliest in Aragón, famous for its Mudéjar towers, brick-and-tile belfries built by Muslim craftsmen working for Christian patrons in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and listed by UNESCO. The ride starts at one of them, the label Torre simply meaning the tower, and then heads out to the Ceja de Piezarrodilla and the Peña del Castellar, where rock art is found in the hills outside the city.
Read the complete Torre write-up.
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Torre 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 85 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 162 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.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Torre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Torre. That is the ride.
Torre → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 85 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 is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.