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 94 km round trip from Ontinyent - roughly 1 h 57 in the saddle. It goes by way of Penya roja o Ulls de Canals, Barranc de mastec and back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ontinyent sits in the Vall d'Albaida, in the south of Valencia, a town of about thirty-eight thousand people with a long textile tradition that goes back to wool, blankets and, more recently, home textiles. The Clariano river runs through it, and the hills around are wrinkled limestone, covered in pine, holm oak and wild herbs. In the shelter of those hills, small rock overhangs, called abrics here, carry paintings made by prehistoric people, and the Abric de la Monja is one of them, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Abric de la monja write-up.
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Abric de la monja is where the day begins. Next is Penya roja o Ulls de Canals.
This is the country of toys and herbs, an unusual pairing. Onil and Ibi, in the inland hills of Alicante, grew up as centres of toy-making, starting with tin and later plastic, and the local museum in Ibi tells how a mountain valley became a world supplier of dolls and games. On the other side, the Sierra de Mariola, a natural park rich in aromatic plants, supplies the herbs for a local liqueur and for traditional remedies. Bocairent, a handsome old town on a rocky spur, has houses built right at the edge of a gorge and a set of man-made caves carved into the cliff, the Covetes dels Moros.
Read the complete Penya roja o Ulls de Canals write-up.
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Penya roja o Ulls de Canals comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de mastec.
Between Cocentaina and Alcoy, in the hilly interior of Alicante province, a small ravine called the Barranc de Mastec holds rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. This corner of Spain is particularly rich in it, with styles ranging from the naturalistic Levantine figures of hunters and animals to the strange, abstract macro-schematic art that seems unique to these valleys. The ravine is surrounded by terraced olive and almond groves, pine woods and limestone crags.
Read the complete Barranc de mastec write-up.
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about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de mastec. Next is back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penya roja o Ulls de Canals write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals, late in the day. Next is Abric de la monja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la monja write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric de la monja. That is the ride.
Abric de la monja → Penya roja o Ulls de Canals is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya roja o Ulls de Canals → Barranc de mastec is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de mastec → back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals → Abric de la monja is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.