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 153 km round trip from Millares - roughly 5 h 15 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia, Peñon de los machos and back through Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de las Cabras is where the day begins. Next is Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia.
Bicorp is famous for a single painting. In the Cuevas de la Araña, a short walk from the village, a figure clings to ropes on a cliff, reaching into a hole surrounded by bees: one of the oldest known depictions of honey gathering in the world. The Abric de Tollos, also called Cambriquia, is another of the painted shelters around Bicorp, in the deep gorges of the Valencian interior, one of the World Heritage rock art sites of the Spanish east.
Read the complete Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia write-up.
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Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Peñon de los machos. Next is back through Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia, 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 Tollos II o de Cambriquia is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia → Peñon de los machos is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → back through Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Tollos II o de Cambriquia → Abric de las Cabras is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.