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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281 km from Alpera to Alpera, about 7 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: Peñon de los machos, Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca, Abric de la Penya and back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ayora sits in a broad valley between two mountain ranges, in the interior of Valencia province, and the land around it has a high, golden look in summer, with fields of cereal, vines and almond trees under big skies. The town, with about 5,500 people, has a castle and a handsome palace of the Counts of Cervellón, and it feels like a gateway to a quieter Spain. To the south, the Cabriel river has cut a long canyon through the limestone, the Hoces del Cabriel, a protected area with clear water, poplars and cliffs, listed as a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Read the complete Abric del Sordo write-up.
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Abric del Sordo is where the day begins. 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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Peñon de los machos comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca.
This is the country of the honey-gatherer. Not far from here, in a cave near Bicorp, one of the best-known Levantine paintings shows a tiny figure climbing a rope ladder to a wild bees' nest high in a cliff, with bees swarming around him. It is thousands of years old, and it is a reminder that the artists who painted these shelters were also men and women who took honey from the rock, followed deer through the scrub and watched the weather. The Abric de Tollos belongs to the same family of shelters in the hills of inland Valencia, part of the Levantine rock art listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca. Next is Abric de la Penya.
Moixent, or Mogente in Castilian, stands at the head of a corridor that has carried traffic between the Valencian coast and the interior of Castile for as long as anyone has been moving goods. The old road, the railway and now the motorway all funnel through here, between low limestone ridges with vineyards and olive groves in the valley floor. The rock shelter known as the Abric de la Penya sits in this landscape a few kilometres from the town, close also to Vallada.
Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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Abric de la Penya, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca.
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Read the complete Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca write-up.
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back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
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Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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back through Peñon de los machos comes up about 233 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Sordo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Sordo write-up.
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Abric del Sordo closes the day.
Abric del Sordo → Peñon de los machos is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → Abric de la Penya is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → back through Peñon de los machos is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → Abric del Sordo is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.