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.
The sign says Abric del Charco de la Madera, and the name suggests a pool, a charco, in a rocky gully near the village of Bicorp, in the highlands of the Valencian interior. This is the Canal de Navarrés and the Valle de Ayora-Cofrentes, a country of limestone ranges, river canyons and poor farming land, a long way from the Valencian beaches. The shelter holds paintings in the Levantine style, part of the UNESCO-listed group. The second stop on this ride, Penya Escrita, is a different site altogether, in the mountains of the Marina Alta far to the east, so treat the two as separate worlds.
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Abric del Charco de la madera 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 del Charco de la madera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Charco de la madera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric del Charco de la madera. That is the ride.
Abric del Charco de la madera → 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 del Charco de la madera is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.