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 423 km round trip from Ontinyent - roughly 9 h 27 in the saddle. On the way it passes Port de Penaguila- Abric II, Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III, Penya de Benicadell and Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 1. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Ontinyent and Bocairent sit close together in the southern part of Valencia province, in the upper valley of the Clariano river, surrounded by the mountains of the Serra de Mariola and the Serra Grossa. Ontinyent is a textile town with a fine old quarter on a hill above the river, crowned by the tall bell tower of the church of Santa Maria. Bocairent, a few kilometres away, is a medieval village perched on a rocky outcrop above a ravine. The Abric de la Creu, the shelter of the cross, lies in the hills between the two.
Read the complete Abric de la Creu write-up.
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Abric de la Creu is where the day begins. Next is Port de Penaguila- Abric II.
The Port de Penàguila is a mountain pass in the interior of Alicante province, on the road between Alcoy and the Vall de Guadalest, where the hills of the Comtat rise toward the Serra d'Aitana, the highest range in the province. The village of Penàguila, below the pass, is a small, ancient place huddled beneath a castle on a rocky crest, and Benilloba, Cocentaina and Alcoy are all close. The second shelter of the Port de Penàguila is one of several painted sites in the area.
Read the complete Port de Penaguila- Abric II write-up.
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Port de Penaguila- Abric II comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III.
Murla sits in the Vall de Pop, a broad valley of vines, oranges and almonds where the Girona river runs down from the mountains towards the coast at El Verger. The ravine of Alpadull cuts into the hills above, and in one of its shelters, the third along, there are prehistoric paintings, part of the great scatter of rock art across Mediterranean Spain that UNESCO lists as a single site. Like most of these shelters, it is better approached as a reason to wander a beautiful valley than as a spectacle in itself.
Read the complete Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III write-up.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III. Next is Penya de Benicadell.
From almost anywhere in the southern half of Valencia province you can see it: a long, jagged ridge of grey limestone with a sharp tooth at its eastern end, standing on the skyline like a broken saw. The Benicadell, at 1,104 metres, separates the Vall d'Albaida to the north from the Comtat to the south, and the sharp summit, the Penya, is the mountain's signature. At its foot lie the villages of Beniarrés, Ràfol de Salem and Otos.
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Penya de Benicadell, about halfway. Next is Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 1, 34 km on.
Nobody builds a gallery in a ravine called Hell without a reason, and the first group of paintings in the Barranc de l'Infern shows what the reason probably was: shade, shelter and a view of whatever walked up the valley. This is conjunto 1 in the numbering archaeologists use, one of several clusters of Levantine rock art in the Vall de Laguar, in the mountains of the Marina Alta, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin.
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Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 1 sits at 136 km, about halfway. Next is back through Penya de Benicadell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penya de Benicadell write-up.
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back through Penya de Benicadell comes up about 270 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III.
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Read the complete Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III write-up.
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about 329 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III. Next is back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port de Penaguila- Abric II write-up.
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back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II, late in the day. Next is Abric de la Creu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Creu write-up.
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The route ends here after 423 km.
Abric de la Creu → Port de Penaguila- Abric II is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port de Penaguila- Abric II → Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III → Penya de Benicadell is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya de Benicadell → Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 1 is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 1 → back through Penya de Benicadell is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penya de Benicadell → back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III → back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II → Abric de la Creu is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.