With the first rays of sunshine, an eagle circles above the wooded mountains of the Sierra de Espadán. It turns its head from time to time, but nothing escapes its eyes. Not even the cyclists in their colourful jerseys, who are riding along the small pass road on this Saturday morning, which winds its way up to the Port d'Eslida hill at 610 metres in moderate hairpin bends. At first, only a few of them climb the newly tarmaced road, on which the names of local cycling matadors are painted in white letters: Guti, Peña, Carrion and Uxeta. The higher the sun rises, the more cyclists climb the pass. "Mountain training," says German from the Union Ciclista Alto Palancia cycling club. The wiry man in his mid-thirties knows his way around, training almost 15,000 kilometres a year on the roads around Segorbe in the Spanish province of Castellón. Erik Zabel also knows the region.
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1. barren Maestrazgo Mountains
(82 kilometres, 1,060 vertical metres, maximum gradient twelve percent)
San Mateo - Tírig - Albocáser - Sarratella - Torre de Endomenech - Tírig - San Mateo
2. to the castle of kings
(132 kilometres, 1,950 metres in altitude, maximum gradient of ten percent)
San Mateo - Chert - Canet lo Roig - Rosell - la Sénia - Bojar - Castell de Cabres - Morella - San Mateo
3. in the Sierra de Espadán Nature Park
(117 kilometres, 2,200 vertical metres, maximum gradient of ten percent)
Segorbe - Castellnovo - Azuébar - Chóvar - Eslida - Ahín - Alcudia de Veo - Tales - Ayódar - Torralba de Pinar - Caudiel - Jérica - Novaliches - Segorbe
4. Valencia's cold store
(85 kilometres, 1,300 metres in altitude, maximum gradient 14 percent)
Segorbe - Peñalva - Algimia de Almonacid - Matet - Gaibiel - Jérica - Teresa - Sacañet - Altura - Segorbe
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