Why this ride
286 km from Bicorp to Bicorp, about 5 h 22 of riding. The stops in between: Abric de les finestres IV, Penya Escrita and back through Abric de les finestres IV. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Abrigo de Jesús Galdón and Penya Escrita
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 286 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 22
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Abrigo de Jesús Galdón
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abrigo de Jesús Galdón is where the day begins. Next is Abric de les finestres IV.
2. Abric de les finestres IV
Bocairent is a village built on a rock, its old houses clinging to a limestone spur above a ravine in the Serra de Mariola, in the south of the province of Valencia. Across the ravine, in the cliff face, a row of small square openings looks out like windows: these are the Covetes dels Moros, a series of artificial caves cut into the rock, connected by internal passages, whose purpose is still debated. They may have been granaries, refuges or even a monastery, and their name means the little caves of the Moors.
Read the complete Abric de les finestres IV write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abric de les finestres IV comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Penya Escrita.
3. Penya Escrita
In the folded limestone hills behind the Costa Blanca, far enough inland that the resorts feel like another country, a rock shelter called Penya Escrita holds prehistoric paintings. The name means something like the written rock, which is what the people of Tàrbena and Bolulla called it long before archaeologists arrived. The figures belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO site made up of hundreds of shelters scattered from Catalonia down to Andalusia, painted by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago. They are small, faded and easy to miss, and they are best appreciated with patience rather than expectation.
Read the complete Penya Escrita write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Penya Escrita. Next is back through Abric de les finestres IV.
4. back through Abric de les finestres IV
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les finestres IV write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Abric de les finestres IV, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de Jesús Galdón.
5. Abrigo de Jesús Galdón
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Jesús Galdón write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Abrigo de Jesús Galdón. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Abrigo de Jesús Galdón to Abric de les finestres IV
Abrigo de Jesús Galdón → Abric de les finestres IV is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de les finestres IV to Penya Escrita
Abric de les finestres IV → Penya Escrita is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya Escrita to back through Abric de les finestres IV
Penya Escrita → back through Abric de les finestres IV is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de les finestres IV to Abrigo de Jesús Galdón
back through Abric de les finestres IV → Abrigo de Jesús Galdón is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.