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 Bicorp it runs 155 km to Bicorp; allow about 3 h 17 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo de Rosser, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I and back through Abrigo de Rosser. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bicorp is the village to head for, and it is worth the ride for the name alone. It is a small place in the Canal de Navarrés, the inland Valencian country where the hills fold into one another and nobody has ever made a postcard of them. This is also the country of the famous Cuevas de la Araña, the Spider Cave near Bicorp, where a painted figure on a rock face is shown gathering honey from a crevice with ropes or vines. Of all the Levantine paintings, that scene is probably the one most often reproduced, and it reminds you that the people who painted these walls were gatherers and hunters with a keen eye for small domestic tasks.
Read the complete Abric de las Sabinas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de las Sabinas is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Rosser.
Near Bicorp, in the dry, folded hills of inland Valencia, one of the most famous images in prehistoric art was found in 1920: a figure clinging to ropes on a cliff, reaching into a hole surrounded by bees, a honey gatherer painted thousands of years ago in the Cuevas de la Araña. The Abrigo de Rosser lies in the same rugged area of the Canal de Navarrés and the Júcar gorges, one of many shelters with Levantine paintings in this region, and together they form part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. Bicorp has a small interpretation centre, and guided visits to some shelters can be arranged.
Read the complete Abrigo de Rosser write-up.
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Abrigo de Rosser comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Alginet sits in the Ribera Alta, the flat, fertile plain south of Valencia where the Júcar river spreads out among orange groves, rice fields and small towns. To the west, the plain meets the first hills of the interior, low ridges of limestone covered in pine and scrub. The Barranc de la Falaguera, the ravine of the fern, cuts into these hills near Alginet, Alfarp and Benifaió.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. Next is back through Abrigo de Rosser.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Rosser write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Rosser, late in the day. Next is Abric de las Sabinas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de las Sabinas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric de las Sabinas. That is the ride.
Abric de las Sabinas → Abrigo de Rosser is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Rosser → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → back through Abrigo de Rosser is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Rosser → Abric de las Sabinas is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.