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 339 km to Millares; allow about 6 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Abric de la Penya, Barranc de la fita-Abric V and back through Abric de la Penya. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Millares country belongs to the Júcar, the long river that cuts through the limestone of inland Valencia and fills the reservoir at Tous before spilling out onto the orange-growing plain. Millares itself has fewer than six hundred people and sits in a landscape of gorges, ravines and dry hills, with Dos Aguas nearby in a similar fold of the land. The Abric de las Cabras is in the hills a few kilometres from the village, a rock shelter whose name suggests the animals that still use these slopes.
Read the complete Abric de las Cabras write-up.
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Abric de las Cabras 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.
Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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Abric de la Penya comes up about 99 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de la fita-Abric V.
If you came here in February, you would find the slopes above Castell de Castells covered in almond blossom, white and pale pink against the grey rock. In April, the cherry trees follow. By June, the almonds and the first cherries are being harvested, the heat settles in, and the shelters in the ravine give welcome shade. By October, the first rains return, the air clears, and the whole valley looks newly washed. The shelter at Barranc de la Fita, Abric V, lies about three kilometres from the village and is a good excuse to see the valley in whichever season you choose.
Read the complete Barranc de la fita-Abric V write-up.
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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de la fita-Abric V. Next is back through 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.
back through Abric de la Penya, late in the day. Next is Abric de las Cabras.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de las Cabras write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric de las Cabras. That is the ride.
Abric de las Cabras → Abric de la Penya is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → Barranc de la fita-Abric V is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la fita-Abric V → back through Abric de la Penya is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Penya → Abric de las Cabras is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.