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 Millares it runs 406 km to Millares; allow about 9 h 37 of riding. On the way it passes Peñon de los machos, Abric de Tortosillas, Olula and Abrigo del Buen Aire I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Júcar gorge below Dos Aguas is the sort of scenery that makes Spanish interior roads famous among riders. A deep valley of red and grey rock, pine and oak, it carries the river towards the sea, and the villages along it, Millares and Dos Aguas among them, are old and small. The Abric de la Pareja is a rock shelter in the cliffs nearby, and its name, the Couple, refers to a pair of painted figures. It is part of the Levantine rock art that UNESCO lists among the Mediterranean Basin sites, and its paintings are among the best examples of how prehistoric hunters pictured themselves.
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Abric de la Pareja is where the day begins. Next is Peñon de los machos.
Cofrentes is a village at the confluence of two rivers, the Júcar and the Cabriel, in the interior of Valencia province, and it has a curious mix of attractions. Above it stands a castle on a crag. Nearby rises the Cerro de Agrás, the only recently active volcano in the Valencian Community, a dark cone of basalt in a landscape of limestone. And just outside the village, the cooling towers of the Cofrentes nuclear power station send plumes of steam into the sky. The Peñón de los Machos, a rocky outcrop with painted shelters, lies in the hills between Cofrentes, Jalance and Jarafuel.
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Peñon de los machos comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Tortosillas.
The Abric de Tortosillas lies in the mountains near Ayora, in the inland valley of Ayora-Cofrentes in Valencia, and its paintings of human figures and animals are part of the rich rock art of this region, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing. Nearby, at Alpera in Albacete province, the Cueva de la Vieja holds one of the most famous Levantine panels, with dozens of figures, archers, deer and goats, and an interpretation centre in the village. The landscape here is dry and mountainous, with pine forests, cliffs and the valley of the Júcar river.
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about 110 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Tortosillas. Next is Olula.
Caudete and Almansa sit in a corridor of land where Castile-La Mancha, Valencia and Murcia meet, and for centuries this was frontier country, where kingdoms and armies passed and fought. Olula is a point in the hills near Caudete, linked on the rides with rock-art shelters in the surrounding sierras, part of the extensive UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in Mediterranean Spain.
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Olula, about halfway. Next is Abrigo del Buen Aire I.
Jumilla country is dry, wide and honest. The town sits in the far north of Murcia where it bulges up towards Albacete, surrounded by limestone sierras, almond groves and vineyards of Monastrell grapes that make some of the most powerful red wine in Spain. A few kilometres outside town, in the folds of these hills, lie a group of small rock shelters known as the Abrigos del Buen Aire. They belong to the long chain of prehistoric painted sites strung along the eastern side of the peninsula that UNESCO lists together as the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Abrigo del Buen Aire I write-up.
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Abrigo del Buen Aire I sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Olula.
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Read the complete Olula write-up.
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back through Olula comes up about 252 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric de Tortosillas.
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Read the complete Abric de Tortosillas write-up.
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about 292 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric de Tortosillas. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
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Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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back through Peñon de los machos, late in the day. Next is Abric de la Pareja.
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Read the complete Abric de la Pareja write-up.
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The route ends here after 406 km.
Abric de la Pareja → Peñon de los machos is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → Abric de Tortosillas is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tortosillas → Olula is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olula → Abrigo del Buen Aire I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Buen Aire I → back through Olula is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olula → back through Abric de Tortosillas is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Tortosillas → back through Peñon de los machos is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → Abric de la Pareja is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.