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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328 km from Millares to Millares, about 8 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Abric de Lucio o Gavidia, Barranco del Cabezo del moro, Cueva del Queso and back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Not every deer on a cave wall is the same animal. The Abric del Ciervo, the Shelter of the Stag, is another of the small rock overhangs in the cliffs above the Júcar country west of Valencia, named for a painted deer that the first people to describe it picked out among the fainter marks. It belongs to the red Levantine art that UNESCO recognised in 1998 as part of the Mediterranean Basin group, and it sits a few kilometres from Millares and Dos Aguas, in a terrain of broken limestone and pine that rewards anyone who enjoys finding things the hard way.
Read the complete Abric del Ciervo write-up.
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Abric del Ciervo is where the day begins. Next is Abric de Lucio o Gavidia.
Ayora is the town for this country, and the road to the shelter starts there, in a broad valley of cereal fields, vines and almond trees where the horizon seems to move away as you approach it. The Valle de Ayora-Cofrentes lies in the south-west of the province of Valencia, between the Júcar river and the mountains of the interior, and it is the kind of landscape that you might cross without noticing, if you were not on the lookout for the dozens of painted shelters hidden in the surrounding gorges.
Read the complete Abric de Lucio o Gavidia write-up.
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Abric de Lucio o Gavidia comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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about 119 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco del Cabezo del moro. Next is Cueva del Queso.
Alpera is a farming town of about two thousand three hundred people on the high, wind-swept plain of southern Albacete, where La Mancha slides toward the Valencian hills. It is famous in the archaeology books for the Cueva de la Vieja, a shelter with a dense frieze of Levantine paintings, among the most celebrated in Spain, and the Cueva del Queso, the Cheese Cave, is one of its neighbours. Together these belong to the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO site since 1998.
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Cueva del Queso, about halfway. Next is back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
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Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro sits at 127 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Lucio o Gavidia write-up.
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back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia comes up about 285 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Ciervo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Ciervo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Ciervo closes the day.
Abric del Ciervo → Abric de Lucio o Gavidia is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Lucio o Gavidia → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Cueva del Queso is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Queso → back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Lucio o Gavidia → Abric del Ciervo is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.