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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278 km from Alpera to Alpera, about 7 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes Peñon de los machos, Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca, Abric de Gontrán and back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Abric de Tortosillas lies in the mountains near Ayora, in the inland valley of Ayora-Cofrentes in Valencia, and its paintings of human figures and animals are part of the rich rock art of this region, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing. Nearby, at Alpera in Albacete province, the Cueva de la Vieja holds one of the most famous Levantine panels, with dozens of figures, archers, deer and goats, and an interpretation centre in the village. The landscape here is dry and mountainous, with pine forests, cliffs and the valley of the Júcar river.
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Abric de Tortosillas is where the day begins. Next is Peñon de los machos.
Cofrentes is a village at the confluence of two rivers, the Júcar and the Cabriel, in the interior of Valencia province, and it has a curious mix of attractions. Above it stands a castle on a crag. Nearby rises the Cerro de Agrás, the only recently active volcano in the Valencian Community, a dark cone of basalt in a landscape of limestone. And just outside the village, the cooling towers of the Cofrentes nuclear power station send plumes of steam into the sky. The Peñón de los Machos, a rocky outcrop with painted shelters, lies in the hills between Cofrentes, Jalance and Jarafuel.
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Peñon de los machos comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca. Next is Abric de Gontrán.
Head south-west from Xàtiva along the old road to Castile and you climb gently into a corridor between two mountain ranges, the Serra Grossa on one side and the Serra de Enguera on the other. The town of Moixent sits where the corridor narrows, with Vallada just downstream and the vineyards of Fontanars dels Alforins on the plateau beyond. The Abric de Gontran lies in the hills just outside Moixent.
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Abric de Gontrán, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca.
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Read the complete Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca write-up.
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back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
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Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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back through Peñon de los machos comes up about 230 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Tortosillas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Tortosillas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de Tortosillas closes the day.
Abric de Tortosillas → Peñon de los machos is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → Abric de Gontrán is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Gontrán → back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → back through Peñon de los machos is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → Abric de Tortosillas is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.