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 284 km round trip from Bicorp - roughly 5 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abric de les finestres IV, Penya Escrita and back through Abric de les finestres IV. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bicorp has about 650 inhabitants and a church, a main street, a bar or two and a long view across a valley of pine and carob trees, and that is the kind of place that makes an inland Valencia ride special. This is the so-called España vaciada, the emptied Spain, where villages have lost most of their young people over the last sixty years, and where the land has been returning to scrub and forest. The roads are quiet because the people are gone, and the effect on a rider is a gift: bend after bend with no traffic, the smell of rosemary and warm pine, and a sky as large as you will see in Europe.
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Abric de los Gineses is where the day begins. Next is Abric de les finestres IV.
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.
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Abric de les finestres IV comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Penya Escrita.
In the folded limestone hills behind the Costa Blanca, far enough inland that the resorts feel like another country, a rock shelter called Penya Escrita holds prehistoric paintings. The name means something like the written rock, which is what the people of Tàrbena and Bolulla called it long before archaeologists arrived. The figures belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO site made up of hundreds of shelters scattered from Catalonia down to Andalusia, painted by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago. They are small, faded and easy to miss, and they are best appreciated with patience rather than expectation.
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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Penya Escrita. Next is back through Abric de les finestres IV.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les finestres IV write-up.
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back through Abric de les finestres IV, late in the day. Next is Abric de los Gineses.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de los Gineses write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric de los Gineses. That is the ride.
Abric de los Gineses → Abric de les finestres IV is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de les finestres IV → Penya Escrita is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya Escrita → back through Abric de les finestres IV is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de les finestres IV → Abric de los Gineses is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.