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 290 km round trip from Sacañet - roughly 6 h 33 in the saddle. On the way it passes Balma de la fabriqueta, Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga, La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia and Covacha del Barranc del Diable. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Balma de la fabriqueta comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga.
The Serra Calderona runs between Valencia and Castellón like a green ridge behind the coast, and Náquera sits on its southern flank, a village of nearly four thousand people with views across the Camp de Túria orchards. A short way into the hills, a ravine with the name Aigua Amarga, bitter water, opens beside the Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga, a small shelter with prehistoric paintings, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998. The figures are modest and the shelter is small, so it is a place for a patient look.
Read the complete Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga. 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 Covacha del Barranc del Diable.
Puçol is a modest, busy town on the coast north of Valencia, famous locally for its orange groves, its beach and its long sandy shore. Inland from it the land rises quickly into the Sierra Calderona, a low range of pine, rosemary and dry gullies. The Barranc del Diable, the Devil's Ravine, is one of many small ravines cut into the foothills, and the covacha, a shallow cave, holds a few rock paintings from the Levantine tradition. These belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art UNESCO listed in 1998, and they are typically small, red and easy to miss unless a guide shows you where to look.
Read the complete Covacha del Barranc del Diable write-up.
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Covacha del Barranc del Diable sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia.
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Read the complete La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia write-up.
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back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia comes up about 171 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga.
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Read the complete Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga write-up.
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about 205 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga. Next is back through Balma de la fabriqueta.
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Read the complete Balma de la fabriqueta write-up.
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back through Balma de la fabriqueta, late in the day. Next is Abric mas de los Perez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric mas de los Perez write-up.
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The route ends here after 290 km.
Abric mas de los Perez → Balma de la fabriqueta is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Balma de la fabriqueta → Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga → La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → Covacha del Barranc del Diable is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacha del Barranc del Diable → back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → back through Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Covacha de l'Aigua Amarga → back through Balma de la fabriqueta is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Balma de la fabriqueta → Abric mas de los Perez is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.