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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195 km from Bicorp to Bicorp, about 3 h 33 of riding. It goes by way of Abric de la Pareja, 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.
Somewhere in the mountains south of Valencia there is a cave named for a spider, and it holds one of the most famous paintings of prehistoric Europe. The Cueva de la Araña, in the village of Bicorp, shows a figure climbing a rope or ladder of plant fibre on a cliff face, apparently collecting honey from a wild bees' nest, with bees flying around. It is a small, lively picture, thought to be several thousand years old, and it has become an emblem of the Levantine rock art tradition that UNESCO listed in 1998. The shelters nearby, among them the Barranco Garrofero, belong to the same landscape and tradition, and you should treat them as protected and fragile places.
Read the complete Abric del Barranco Garrofero write-up.
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Abric del Barranco Garrofero is where the day begins. Next is Abric de la Pareja.
The Júcar gorge below Dos Aguas is the sort of scenery that makes Spanish interior roads famous among riders. A deep valley of red and grey rock, pine and oak, it carries the river towards the sea, and the villages along it, Millares and Dos Aguas among them, are old and small. The Abric de la Pareja is a rock shelter in the cliffs nearby, and its name, the Couple, refers to a pair of painted figures. It is part of the Levantine rock art that UNESCO lists among the Mediterranean Basin sites, and its paintings are among the best examples of how prehistoric hunters pictured themselves.
Read the complete Abric de la Pareja write-up.
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Abric de la Pareja comes up about 38 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 69 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.
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back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de la Pareja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Pareja write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de la Pareja comes up about 158 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Barranco Garrofero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Barranco Garrofero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Barranco Garrofero closes the day.
Abric del Barranco Garrofero → Abric de la Pareja is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Pareja → 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 de la Pareja is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Pareja → Abric del Barranco Garrofero is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.