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 293 km round trip from Pego - roughly 5 h 36 in the saddle. The stops in between: Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II, Coveta del mig- Abric I, Barranc de les Coves- Abric I and back through Coveta del mig- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the Vall d'Ebo, a small valley in the mountains of northern Alicante, the Abric de les Torrudanes is a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of many in the area that form part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin World Heritage listing. The paintings include human figures and animals in the Levantine style, and the shelter's location, on a cliff above the valley, offers views over the mountains. Nearby, the Cova del Rull is a show cave with stalactites and stalagmites.
Read the complete Abric de les Torrudanes write-up.
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Abric de les Torrudanes is where the day begins. Next is Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II.
Cocentaina lies in the green hollow of the Comtat, a valley in the Alicante hills, with its palace and castle watching the Serpis river from the edge of town. Above and to the east rise limestone crags, among them the Penyó de les Carrasques, named for the carrasca, the holm oak that clings to dry slopes here. A rock shelter in the cliff, Abric II, preserves prehistoric paintings, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listed by UNESCO in 1998. As elsewhere in this tradition, the figures are small and fragile, and access can be restricted.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II write-up.
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Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coveta del mig- Abric I.
Otos is a tiny village in the Vall d'Albaida, in the south of Valencia province, and it has an unusual claim to fame: its walls are decorated with dozens of sundials, designed by artists and scattered through the streets, making the village a kind of open-air museum of time. Nearby, in the hills around Otos, Bèlgida and Ráfol de Salem, prehistoric people left paintings in rock shelters, and the Coveta del Mig is one of the sites included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The art here includes schematic figures, simplified human and animal forms, and the area is part of a rich zone of rock art that extends into the mountains of the Alicante province to the south.
Read the complete Coveta del mig- Abric I write-up.
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about 98 km into the recorded legs you reach Coveta del mig- Abric I. Next is Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
Ibi is the toy capital of Spain, a fact that surprises everyone who rides through this mountain town in the hills of Alicante. Since the early twentieth century, workshops here have produced dolls, tin toys and plastic figures, and the Valencian Toy Museum tells the story. The rock shelter named Barranc de les Coves Abric I lies in the hills between Ibi and Alcoy, in a ravine whose name simply means the gully of the caves.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, about halfway. Next is back through Coveta del mig- Abric I.
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Read the complete Coveta del mig- Abric I write-up.
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back through Coveta del mig- Abric I sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II write-up.
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back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II comes up about 239 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de les Torrudanes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les Torrudanes write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de les Torrudanes closes the day.
Abric de les Torrudanes → Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II → Coveta del mig- Abric I is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta del mig- Abric I → Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → back through Coveta del mig- Abric I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta del mig- Abric I → back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II → Abric de les Torrudanes is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.