Why this ride
From Bicorp it runs 325 km to Bicorp; allow about 5 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Olula, Abrigo del Canto Blanco and back through Olula. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca and Abrigo del Canto Blanco
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 325 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 42
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca
This is the country of the honey-gatherer. Not far from here, in a cave near Bicorp, one of the best-known Levantine paintings shows a tiny figure climbing a rope ladder to a wild bees' nest high in a cliff, with bees swarming around him. It is thousands of years old, and it is a reminder that the artists who painted these shelters were also men and women who took honey from the rock, followed deer through the scrub and watched the weather. The Abric de Tollos belongs to the same family of shelters in the hills of inland Valencia, part of the Levantine rock art listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is where the day begins. Next is Olula.
2. Olula
Caudete and Almansa sit in a corridor of land where Castile-La Mancha, Valencia and Murcia meet, and for centuries this was frontier country, where kingdoms and armies passed and fought. Olula is a point in the hills near Caudete, linked on the rides with rock-art shelters in the surrounding sierras, part of the extensive UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in Mediterranean Spain.
Read the complete Olula write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Olula comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Canto Blanco.
3. Abrigo del Canto Blanco
Jumilla is wine country, and you know it as soon as you arrive. The town sits in the north of the Murcia region, surrounded by a high, dry plateau of vineyards growing the Monastrell grape, which produces powerful, dark red wines. A castle tops the hill above the old town, and the bodegas on its outskirts welcome visitors. The Abrigo del Canto Blanco, the shelter of the white stone, lies in the hills about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Abrigo del Canto Blanco write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Canto Blanco. Next is back through Olula.
4. back through Olula
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Olula write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Olula, late in the day. Next is Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca.
5. Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca to Olula
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → Olula is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olula to Abrigo del Canto Blanco
Olula → Abrigo del Canto Blanco is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Canto Blanco to back through Olula
Abrigo del Canto Blanco → back through Olula is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olula to Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca
back through Olula → Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.