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 370 km round trip from Millares - roughly 5 h 51 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cueva de la Vieja, Abric de Gontrán and back through Cueva de la Vieja. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Millares is a village of fewer than six hundred people in the interior of Valencia province, and the whole district feels like a place the twentieth century forgot to modernise. The land is a mix of limestone gorges, dry terraces and pine forest, with the Júcar river running through a deep canyon to the south, and the reservoirs of Cortes and Naranjero lighting the valley floor with turquoise water. The roads wind through small farming settlements, past carob and olive trees, and the silence is often broken only by the bells of a flock of goats.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de las Cañas I is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de la Vieja.
In 1910 a local man led researchers to a shallow shelter above the plain of Alpera in Albacete, and the paintings they found there became some of the best known examples of Levantine rock art in Spain. The Cueva de la Vieja shows archers with feathered headdresses, women in long skirts, deer and goats, all painted with a sense of movement that still feels immediate. The nearby Cueva del Queso holds more figures. Both are part of the UNESCO listing for the rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean, and guided visits run from the village, so check times with Alpera's tourist office.
Read the complete Cueva de la Vieja write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de la Vieja comes up about 121 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Gontrán.
Head south-west from Xàtiva along the old road to Castile and you climb gently into a corridor between two mountain ranges, the Serra Grossa on one side and the Serra de Enguera on the other. The town of Moixent sits where the corridor narrows, with Vallada just downstream and the vineyards of Fontanars dels Alforins on the plateau beyond. The Abric de Gontran lies in the hills just outside Moixent.
Read the complete Abric de Gontrán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 184 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Gontrán. Next is back through Cueva de la Vieja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Vieja write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de la Vieja, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de las Cañas I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de las Cañas I. That is the ride.
Abrigo de las Cañas I → Cueva de la Vieja is 121 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Vieja → Abric de Gontrán is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Gontrán → back through Cueva de la Vieja is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de la Vieja → Abrigo de las Cañas I is 121 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.