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 330 km round trip from Millares - roughly 9 h 03 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I, Barranco del Cabezo del moro, Cueva de la Vieja and back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro. 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 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 Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I.
Bicorp is a small village in the folds of the Valencian interior, west of Xàtiva, in a country of pine, scrub and deep ravines that falls towards the Júcar and the Sierra de Martés. The Cueva de la Araña, the Spider Cave, is one of the most famous rock art sites in Spain, and the main reason to come. In its shelter is a painted scene of a figure climbing a rope or ladder of plant fibre to collect honey from a wild hive, with bees flying around. It is thought to be several thousand years old, and it is one of the finest and most human images of the Levantine rock art, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I write-up.
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Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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about 119 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco del Cabezo del moro. Next is Cueva de la Vieja.
In 1910 a local man led researchers to a shallow shelter above the plain of Alpera in Albacete, and the paintings they found there became some of the best known examples of Levantine rock art in Spain. The Cueva de la Vieja shows archers with feathered headdresses, women in long skirts, deer and goats, all painted with a sense of movement that still feels immediate. The nearby Cueva del Queso holds more figures. Both are part of the UNESCO listing for the rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean, and guided visits run from the village, so check times with Alpera's tourist office.
Read the complete Cueva de la Vieja write-up.
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Cueva de la Vieja, about halfway. Next is back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I comes up about 278 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Abric de las Cabras closes the day.
Abric de las Cabras → Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Cueva de la Vieja is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Vieja → back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I → Abric de las Cabras is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.