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 342 km round trip from Ontinyent - roughly 8 h 05 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric del Charco de la madera, Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I and back through Abric del Charco de la madera. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
100 km on Abric del Charco de la madera → Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I.
Bocairent is a village built on a rock, its old houses clinging to a limestone spur above a ravine in the Serra de Mariola, in the south of the province of Valencia. Across the ravine, in the cliff face, a row of small square openings looks out like windows: these are the Covetes dels Moros, a series of artificial caves cut into the rock, connected by internal passages, whose purpose is still debated. They may have been granaries, refuges or even a monastery, and their name means the little caves of the Moors.
Read the complete Abric de les finestres IV write-up.
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Abric de les finestres IV is where the day begins. Next is Abric del Charco de la madera.
The sign says Abric del Charco de la Madera, and the name suggests a pool, a charco, in a rocky gully near the village of Bicorp, in the highlands of the Valencian interior. This is the Canal de Navarrés and the Valle de Ayora-Cofrentes, a country of limestone ranges, river canyons and poor farming land, a long way from the Valencian beaches. The shelter holds paintings in the Levantine style, part of the UNESCO-listed group. The second stop on this ride, Penya Escrita, is a different site altogether, in the mountains of the Marina Alta far to the east, so treat the two as separate worlds.
Read the complete Abric del Charco de la madera write-up.
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Abric del Charco de la madera comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I.
West of Valencia, the river Turia leaves the mountains through a series of deep gorges, and around the villages of Gestalgar, Sot de Chera and Chulilla, the landscape turns dramatic: limestone cliffs, pine-covered slopes and the river winding green below. In a side ravine near Gestalgar, the Barranco de las Colochas shelters a handful of painted panels that UNESCO counts among the Mediterranean rock art of Iberia. The figures are faint, but the setting is worth the effort on its own.
Read the complete Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I write-up.
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about 169 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I. Next is back through Abric del Charco de la madera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Charco de la madera write-up.
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back through Abric del Charco de la madera, late in the day. Next is Abric de les finestres IV.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les finestres IV write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric de les finestres IV. That is the ride.
Abric de les finestres IV → Abric del Charco de la madera is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Charco de la madera → Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I → back through Abric del Charco de la madera is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abric del Charco de la madera → Abric de les finestres IV is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.