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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A 286 km round trip from Quesa - roughly 8 h 05 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abric del Cinto de la Ventana, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia and back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Canal de Navarrés is a wide valley in the interior of Valencia province, surrounded by limestone mountains and deep gorges, and the Abric del Voro lies in the hills between Quesa and Bicorp, two small villages in the heart of some of the wildest country in the region. It is one of the many rock shelters with prehistoric paintings in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The valley's most famous site is close by: the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, where a painting of a figure climbing ropes to collect honey from a wild bees' nest, surrounded by bees, is one of the best-known images of prehistoric art in Spain, often cited as one of the earliest depictions of honey gathering.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
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Abric del Voro is where the day begins. Next is Abric del Cinto de la Ventana.
South-west of Valencia the Júcar river has carved a long, winding gorge through the limestone, and the country on either side is some of the most rugged in the region. The Macizo del Caroig, a high limestone massif of pine and scrub, rises to more than eleven hundred metres, and the villages of Millares and Dos Aguas are small places tucked into the valleys at its foot. The Abric del Cinto de la Ventana is a rock shelter in the nearby cliffs, and belongs to the Mediterranean Basin rock art group listed by UNESCO in 1998, the red Levantine paintings painted by prehistoric hunters.
Read the complete Abric del Cinto de la Ventana write-up.
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Abric del Cinto de la Ventana comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. 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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La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, 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.
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back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Cinto de la Ventana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Cinto de la Ventana write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Cinto de la Ventana comes up about 218 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Voro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric del Voro closes the day.
Abric del Voro → Abric del Cinto de la Ventana is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Cinto de la Ventana → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 49 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 → 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 → back through Abric del Cinto de la Ventana is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Cinto de la Ventana → Abric del Voro is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.