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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From Millares it runs 507 km to Millares; allow about 11 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: Peñon de los machos, Abric del Ciervo, Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I and Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
60 km on Abric del Ciervo → Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I.
Near Bicorp, in the dry, folded hills of inland Valencia, one of the most famous images in prehistoric art was found in 1920: a figure clinging to ropes on a cliff, reaching into a hole surrounded by bees, a honey gatherer painted thousands of years ago in the Cuevas de la Araña. The Abrigo de Rosser lies in the same rugged area of the Canal de Navarrés and the Júcar gorges, one of many shelters with Levantine paintings in this region, and together they form part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. Bicorp has a small interpretation centre, and guided visits to some shelters can be arranged.
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Abrigo de Rosser is where the day begins. Next is Peñon de los machos.
Cofrentes is a village at the confluence of two rivers, the Júcar and the Cabriel, in the interior of Valencia province, and it has a curious mix of attractions. Above it stands a castle on a crag. Nearby rises the Cerro de Agrás, the only recently active volcano in the Valencian Community, a dark cone of basalt in a landscape of limestone. And just outside the village, the cooling towers of the Cofrentes nuclear power station send plumes of steam into the sky. The Peñón de los Machos, a rocky outcrop with painted shelters, lies in the hills between Cofrentes, Jalance and Jarafuel.
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Peñon de los machos comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Ciervo. Next is Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I.
West of Valencia, the river Turia leaves the mountains through a series of deep gorges, and around the villages of Gestalgar, Sot de Chera and Chulilla, the landscape turns dramatic: limestone cliffs, pine-covered slopes and the river winding green below. In a side ravine near Gestalgar, the Barranco de las Colochas shelters a handful of painted panels that UNESCO counts among the Mediterranean rock art of Iberia. The figures are faint, but the setting is worth the effort on its own.
Read the complete Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I write-up.
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Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I, about halfway. Next is Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the.
Tuéjar, Chelva and Alpuente are small towns in the Serranía, the rugged highland of inland Valencia, where the rivers cut deep valleys between pine-clad ridges. It is a corner of the province that most visitors to the coast never see. The name on the stop refers to the UNESCO listing of 1998 for the rock art of the Mediterranean basin on the Iberian peninsula, and the paintings of Barranco de las Colochas, the ravine nearby, belong to it. The ravine and the surrounding woods are worth the trip on their own.
Read the complete Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the write-up.
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Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the sits at 154 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I.
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Read the complete Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I write-up.
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back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I comes up about 308 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric del Ciervo.
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Read the complete Abric del Ciervo write-up.
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about 370 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric del Ciervo. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
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Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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back through Peñon de los machos, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de Rosser.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Rosser write-up.
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The route ends here after 507 km.
Abrigo de Rosser → Peñon de los machos is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → Abric del Ciervo is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Ciervo → Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I → Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the → back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco de las Colochas- Abrigo I → back through Abric del Ciervo is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Ciervo → back through Peñon de los machos is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → Abrigo de Rosser is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.