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 224 km round trip from Mogente - roughly 4 h 50 in the saddle. It goes by way of Penya roja o Ulls de Canals, Port de Penaguila- Abric II, Cova Alta- Abric I and back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de la Penya 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Penya roja o Ulls de Canals comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Port de Penaguila- Abric II. Next is Cova Alta- Abric I.
The Vall d'Ebo is one of the quietest places in the Marina Alta, a high valley of fewer than four hundred people in the mountains behind Dénia, and the Cova Alta, the High Cave, stands above it on the slopes of the surrounding ridges. Castell de Castells is the nearest village, about three kilometres off, and Benimantell and Vall d'Ebo are the neighbours. The shelter carries painted figures in the Levantine style, protected with the rest of the region's rock art by UNESCO, and it is one of a group of caves that the rides tie together around the Port de Penàguila.
Read the complete Cova Alta- Abric I write-up.
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Cova Alta- Abric I, about halfway. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II sits at 111 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 185 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la Penya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de la Penya closes the day.
Abric de la Penya → Penya roja o Ulls de Canals is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya roja o Ulls de Canals → Port de Penaguila- Abric II is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port de Penaguila- Abric II → Cova Alta- Abric I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova Alta- Abric I → back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II → back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals is 30 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 Penya is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.