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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 478 km round trip from Millares - roughly 7 h 46 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric Pedro más, Abrigo del Buen Aire I and back through Abric Pedro más. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Valencian paella, the real one, contains no seafood. It is a dish of the interior, cooked over an open fire of orange wood in a wide, shallow pan, with rice, chicken, rabbit, flat green beans, a large white bean called garrofó, tomato, saffron and olive oil, and in some places snails. The coast got involved later. A rider who is tempted by a plate of it on the road to Millares should look for a bar that cooks to order and takes forty minutes, since the quicker ones tend to rely on the freezer.
Read the complete Abrigo del Atajo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del Atajo I is where the day begins. Next is Abric Pedro más.
Almansa announces itself from far away: a castle perched on a limestone crag right in the middle of the town, its walls and towers silhouetted against the sky. The town sits at the eastern edge of La Mancha, where the high plateau meets the mountains of Valencia, and it was here, in April 1707, that one of the decisive battles of the War of the Spanish Succession was fought, when the Bourbon army defeated an allied force and secured the throne of Spain for Philip V. A monument on the battlefield and a museum in town tell the story. In the hills to the north, near Alpera, the Abric Pedro Mas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Cueva de la Vieja is one of the best-known Levantine sites, with archers, deer and goats.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric Pedro más comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Buen Aire I.
Jumilla country is dry, wide and honest. The town sits in the far north of Murcia where it bulges up towards Albacete, surrounded by limestone sierras, almond groves and vineyards of Monastrell grapes that make some of the most powerful red wine in Spain. A few kilometres outside town, in the folds of these hills, lie a group of small rock shelters known as the Abrigos del Buen Aire. They belong to the long chain of prehistoric painted sites strung along the eastern side of the peninsula that UNESCO lists together as the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Abrigo del Buen Aire I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 238 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Buen Aire I. Next is back through Abric Pedro más.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric Pedro más, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Atajo I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Atajo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Atajo I. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Atajo I → Abric Pedro más is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric Pedro más → Abrigo del Buen Aire I is 146 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Buen Aire I → back through Abric Pedro más is 147 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric Pedro más → Abrigo del Atajo I is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.