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 Muro del Alcoy it runs 406 km to Muro del Alcoy; allow about 8 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Abric de la Penya, Abric del Voro, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I and Covacha del Barranc del Diable. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Muro de Alcoy and Cocentaina sit side by side in the valley of the Serpis river, in the Comtat, a district of northern Alicante surrounded by mountains. Cocentaina is crowned by a castle with a tall tower, and below it lies an old town with a palace of the Counts of Cocentaina and a Franciscan convent. The Abric de la Paella, named after the paella pan perhaps because of its shape, lies in the hills between the two towns.
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Abric de la Paella is where the day begins. Next is Abric de la Penya.
Moixent, or Mogente in Castilian, stands at the head of a corridor that has carried traffic between the Valencian coast and the interior of Castile for as long as anyone has been moving goods. The old road, the railway and now the motorway all funnel through here, between low limestone ridges with vineyards and olive groves in the valley floor. The rock shelter known as the Abric de la Penya sits in this landscape a few kilometres from the town, close also to Vallada.
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Abric de la Penya comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Voro.
The Canal de Navarrés is a wide valley in the interior of Valencia province, surrounded by limestone mountains and deep gorges, and the Abric del Voro lies in the hills between Quesa and Bicorp, two small villages in the heart of some of the wildest country in the region. It is one of the many rock shelters with prehistoric paintings in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The valley's most famous site is close by: the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, where a painting of a figure climbing ropes to collect honey from a wild bees' nest, surrounded by bees, is one of the best-known images of prehistoric art in Spain, often cited as one of the earliest depictions of honey gathering.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Voro. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Alginet sits in the Ribera Alta, the flat, fertile plain south of Valencia where the Júcar river spreads out among orange groves, rice fields and small towns. To the west, the plain meets the first hills of the interior, low ridges of limestone covered in pine and scrub. The Barranc de la Falaguera, the ravine of the fern, cuts into these hills near Alginet, Alfarp and Benifaió.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, about halfway. Next is Covacha del Barranc del Diable.
Puçol is a modest, busy town on the coast north of Valencia, famous locally for its orange groves, its beach and its long sandy shore. Inland from it the land rises quickly into the Sierra Calderona, a low range of pine, rosemary and dry gullies. The Barranc del Diable, the Devil's Ravine, is one of many small ravines cut into the foothills, and the covacha, a shallow cave, holds a few rock paintings from the Levantine tradition. These belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art UNESCO listed in 1998, and they are typically small, red and easy to miss unless a guide shows you where to look.
Read the complete Covacha del Barranc del Diable write-up.
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Covacha del Barranc del Diable sits at 171 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
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Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I comes up about 255 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric del Voro.
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Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
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about 319 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric del Voro. Next is back through Abric de la Penya.
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Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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back through Abric de la Penya, late in the day. Next is Abric de la Paella.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Paella write-up.
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The route ends here after 406 km.
Abric de la Paella → Abric de la Penya is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → Abric del Voro is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Voro → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → Covacha del Barranc del Diable is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacha del Barranc del Diable → back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → back through Abric del Voro is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Voro → back through Abric de la Penya is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Penya → Abric de la Paella is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.