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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From Millares it runs 141 km to Millares; allow about 4 h 33 of riding. It goes by way of Abric del Espolón del Zapatero, Peñon de los machos and back through Abric del Espolón del Zapatero. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 del Espolón del Zapatero.
The Cortes de Pallás area, in the interior of Valencia province, is one of the wildest places within an hour or two of the coast. The Júcar river has carved a deep canyon through the limestone, and the Muela de Cortes, a high plateau of rock and scrub, rises above it. Bicorp, Quesa and Millares are small villages on its edge, and the roads that link them are some of the twistiest in the region, with sections that cling to the sides of the gorge and open on huge views. Griffon vultures and golden eagles use the cliffs, and the pine woods are home to wild boar and roe deer.
Read the complete Abric del Espolón del Zapatero write-up.
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Abric del Espolón del Zapatero comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Peñon de los machos. Next is back through Abric del Espolón del Zapatero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Espolón del Zapatero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Espolón del Zapatero, late in the day. 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.
Back at Abric del Ciervo. That is the ride.
Abric del Ciervo → Abric del Espolón del Zapatero is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Espolón del Zapatero → Peñon de los machos is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → back through Abric del Espolón del Zapatero is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Espolón del Zapatero → Abric del Ciervo is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.