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 Titaguas it runs 379 km to Titaguas; allow about 6 h 52 of riding. The stops in between: Abric mas de los Perez, Balma de la fabriqueta, Peñón de Santo Espíritu and back through Balma de la fabriqueta. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
High in the interior of Valencia province, where the coastal orange groves give way to limestone plateaus and pine forest, the village of Titaguas sits on the road towards the Rincón de Ademuz. Close by lies the Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano, a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the hundreds of sites that make up the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is where the day begins. Next is Abric mas de los Perez.
Between the Turia and the Palancia rivers, northwest of Valencia, the land rises into a maze of limestone mountains, pine forest and small villages that rarely see foreign visitors. The Abric del Mas de los Pérez is a rock shelter in the hills near Andilla, Viver and Alcublas, one of hundreds of painted sites in eastern Spain listed by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. These shelters were decorated by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago, and while some feature vivid hunting scenes, many are faint and hard to see without a trained eye. Respect any fences and signs, and never wet or touch the rock.
Read the complete Abric mas de los Perez write-up.
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Abric mas de los Perez comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Balma de la fabriqueta.
The Serra Calderona is the green ridge that rises north-west of Valencia, separating the city's plain from the valleys of the interior. It is a natural park of pine forest, cork oak and rocky hills, close enough to the city for weekend walkers and riders, yet surprisingly wild once you get into it. The rock shelter of Balma de la Fabriqueta lies near the village of Olocau on its southern side, one of the painted shelters that make up the Levantine rock art inscribed by UNESCO. Access to many of these sites is restricted or guided, so check with the local tourist office before trying to visit.
Read the complete Balma de la fabriqueta write-up.
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about 132 km into the recorded legs you reach Balma de la fabriqueta. Next is Peñón de Santo Espíritu.
Behind the orange groves of the Camp de Morvedre, a few kilometres inland from Sagunto, the land rises into the Sierra Calderona, a low range of pine woods, scrub and red sandstone that separates the coastal plain from the dry interior. The Peñón de Santo Espíritu is a rocky outcrop in these hills above the village of Gilet, and it carries prehistoric rock art in the Levantine tradition, the style of painted hunters, animals and human figures found in shelters along the Mediterranean side of Spain and listed by UNESCO as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The paintings are fragile and often protected, so do not expect to wander up and touch anything.
Read the complete Peñón de Santo Espíritu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Peñón de Santo Espíritu, about halfway. Next is back through Balma de la fabriqueta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Balma de la fabriqueta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Balma de la fabriqueta sits at 136 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric mas de los Perez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric mas de los Perez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric mas de los Perez comes up about 300 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano closes the day.
Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano → Abric mas de los Perez is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric mas de los Perez → Balma de la fabriqueta is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Balma de la fabriqueta → Peñón de Santo Espíritu is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñón de Santo Espíritu → back through Balma de la fabriqueta is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Balma de la fabriqueta → back through Abric mas de los Perez is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric mas de los Perez → Abric del Rincón del Tío Escribano is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.