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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Millares it runs 355 km to Millares; allow about 6 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, Abric mas de los Perez and back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Macizo del Caroig is one of the emptiest corners of the Valencian region, a high, rugged limestone massif cut by deep gorges, covered with pine, scrub and rosemary, and dotted with a few small villages. Bicorp, Millares and Quesa lie on its edges, and in the ravines around them are dozens of rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Abrigo de las Cañas is one of them, and the area as a whole is among the richest in Spain for this kind of art.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de las Cañas II is where the day begins. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric mas de los Perez.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 177 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric mas de los Perez. Next is back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de las Cañas II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de las Cañas II. That is the ride.
Abrigo de las Cañas II → La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → Abric mas de los Perez is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric mas de los Perez → back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → Abrigo de las Cañas II is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.