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 132 km round trip from Bicorp - roughly 2 h 24 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric del Ciervo, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I and back through Abric del Ciervo. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bicorp is a village of about six hundred people in the interior of Valencia province, and it is famous among archaeologists for the Cueva de la Araña, whose painting of a person climbing a rope to reach a wild bees' nest is one of the best-known images of Levantine art. The shelter marked Abrigo de Jesús Galdón is a few kilometres from Bicorp, in the same dry, rugged country of limestone ridges and pine, and it belongs to the same tradition. The honey-hunting scene is also part of the reason that this rock art is protected by UNESCO, which listed it in 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo de Jesús Galdón write-up.
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Abrigo de Jesús Galdón is where the day begins. Next is Abric del Ciervo.
Not every deer on a cave wall is the same animal. The Abric del Ciervo, the Shelter of the Stag, is another of the small rock overhangs in the cliffs above the Júcar country west of Valencia, named for a painted deer that the first people to describe it picked out among the fainter marks. It belongs to the red Levantine art that UNESCO recognised in 1998 as part of the Mediterranean Basin group, and it sits a few kilometres from Millares and Dos Aguas, in a terrain of broken limestone and pine that rewards anyone who enjoys finding things the hard way.
Read the complete Abric del Ciervo write-up.
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Abric del Ciervo comes up about 35 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 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. Next is back through Abric del Ciervo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Ciervo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Ciervo, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de Jesús Galdón.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Jesús Galdón write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de Jesús Galdón. That is the ride.
Abrigo de Jesús Galdón → Abric del Ciervo is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Ciervo → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → back through Abric del Ciervo is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Ciervo → Abrigo de Jesús Galdón is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.