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 335 km round trip from Almansa - roughly 6 h 49 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo del mal Paso, Abric de Lambert and back through Abrigo del mal Paso. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Almansa announces itself from far away: a castle perched on a limestone crag right in the middle of the town, its walls and towers silhouetted against the sky. The town sits at the eastern edge of La Mancha, where the high plateau meets the mountains of Valencia, and it was here, in April 1707, that one of the decisive battles of the War of the Spanish Succession was fought, when the Bourbon army defeated an allied force and secured the throne of Spain for Philip V. A monument on the battlefield and a museum in town tell the story. In the hills to the north, near Alpera, the Abric Pedro Mas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Cueva de la Vieja is one of the best-known Levantine sites, with archers, deer and goats.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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Abric Pedro más is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del mal Paso.
The Júcar is the river behind this stop, though you cannot see it from the shelter. Millares is a village of about five hundred people in the broken hill country of inland Valencia, not far from where the great river runs out of the mountains and into the reservoir at Tous. The country around is a labyrinth of gorges, ravines and small plateaux, cut by the Júcar and its tributaries, with pine woods on the slopes and bare limestone on the tops.
Read the complete Abrigo del mal Paso write-up.
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Abrigo del mal Paso comes up about 95 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Lambert.
Cullera is not where most people would look for prehistory. It is a busy beach town at the mouth of the Júcar, with high-rise apartments along the sand, a lighthouse on the point and rice fields stretching inland toward the Albufera lagoon. But the town has a mountain at its back, a limestone outcrop crowned by a castle and a sanctuary, and in that rock there are shelters, including the one known as the Abric de Lambert.
Read the complete Abric de Lambert write-up.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Lambert. Next is back through Abrigo del mal Paso.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del mal Paso write-up.
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back through Abrigo del mal Paso, late in the day. Next is Abric Pedro más.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric Pedro más. That is the ride.
Abric Pedro más → Abrigo del mal Paso is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mal Paso → Abric de Lambert is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Lambert → back through Abrigo del mal Paso is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del mal Paso → Abric Pedro más is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.