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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261 km from Millares to Millares, about 5 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, Covacha del Barranc del Diable and back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. The line favours views over speed.
On 20 October 1982, after days of torrential rain, the dam at Tous on the Júcar gave way. The flood that followed swept down the Ribera, drowned fields and towns, and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, and it remains one of the great disasters in the modern history of the Valencian country. The reservoir was rebuilt with a larger spillway, and today it is a calm sheet of water, but the people of Carlet and the neighbouring villages have not forgotten. The Abric del Charco Negro lies some way upstream, in the hills above Millares, where the Júcar and its tributaries cut through limestone.
Read the complete Abric del Charco Negro write-up.
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Abric del Charco Negro is where the day begins. 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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Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. Next is Covacha del Barranc del Diable.
Puçol is a modest, busy town on the coast north of Valencia, famous locally for its orange groves, its beach and its long sandy shore. Inland from it the land rises quickly into the Sierra Calderona, a low range of pine, rosemary and dry gullies. The Barranc del Diable, the Devil's Ravine, is one of many small ravines cut into the foothills, and the covacha, a shallow cave, holds a few rock paintings from the Levantine tradition. These belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art UNESCO listed in 1998, and they are typically small, red and easy to miss unless a guide shows you where to look.
Read the complete Covacha del Barranc del Diable write-up.
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Covacha del Barranc del Diable, about halfway. Next is back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia sits at 119 km, 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 comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Charco Negro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Charco Negro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Charco Negro closes the day.
Abric del Charco Negro → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 75 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 → Covacha del Barranc del Diable is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacha del Barranc del Diable → back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Abric del Charco Negro is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.