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 208 km round trip from Bicorp - roughly 3 h 51 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric del Ciervo, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia and back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. The line favours views over speed.
Ayora is the town for this country, and the road to the shelter starts there, in a broad valley of cereal fields, vines and almond trees where the horizon seems to move away as you approach it. The Valle de Ayora-Cofrentes lies in the south-west of the province of Valencia, between the Júcar river and the mountains of the interior, and it is the kind of landscape that you might cross without noticing, if you were not on the lookout for the dozens of painted shelters hidden in the surrounding gorges.
Read the complete Abric de Lucio o Gavidia write-up.
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Abric de Lucio o Gavidia is where the day begins. Next is Abric del Ciervo.
Not every deer on a cave wall is the same animal. The Abric del Ciervo, the Shelter of the Stag, is another of the small rock overhangs in the cliffs above the Júcar country west of Valencia, named for a painted deer that the first people to describe it picked out among the fainter marks. It belongs to the red Levantine art that UNESCO recognised in 1998 as part of the Mediterranean Basin group, and it sits a few kilometres from Millares and Dos Aguas, in a terrain of broken limestone and pine that rewards anyone who enjoys finding things the hard way.
Read the complete Abric del Ciervo write-up.
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Abric del Ciervo comes up about 44 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.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. Next is La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia.
In the heart of Valencia's old town, a Gothic building with crenellated walls and gargoyles looks more like a castle than a market, and that was rather the point. The Lonja de la Seda, the silk exchange, was built in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries when Valencia was one of the richest cities in the Mediterranean, and it was meant to show the power of its merchants. Its great hall, the Sala de Contratación, is one of the masterpieces of late Gothic architecture, with slender columns that twist like palm trunks up to a ribbed vault. It was listed by UNESCO in 1996.
Read the complete La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia write-up.
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La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Ciervo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Ciervo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Ciervo comes up about 164 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Lucio o Gavidia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Lucio o Gavidia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de Lucio o Gavidia closes the day.
Abric de Lucio o Gavidia → Abric del Ciervo is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Ciervo → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → back through Abric del Ciervo is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Ciervo → Abric de Lucio o Gavidia is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.