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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418 km from Alpera to Alpera, about 9 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Cueva moma, Abric de les finestres IV and back through Cueva moma. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Alpera is a small town on the plateau between Albacete and the Valencian coast, in the flat, windy country where La Mancha begins to tilt towards the sea. It is best known among archaeologists for Cueva de la Vieja, a shelter with one of the largest collections of Levantine paintings in the interior, and Abrigo II is part of the same group. The cluster of figures includes human forms, animals and symbols, painted in red and black, and the whole group is part of the UNESCO listing for the Mediterranean basin.
Read the complete Abrigo II write-up.
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Abrigo II is where the day begins. Next is Cueva moma.
Bicorp's name appears on the map of rock art mainly because of its famous spider cave, but the Cueva Moma sits a few kilometres south-west of the village and has its own quiet claim to attention. It is a Levantine painted site in the dry highlands of the Canal de Navarrés, in the middle of inland Valencia, where the hills are steep, the villages small and the roads wander.
Read the complete Cueva moma write-up.
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Cueva moma comes up about 128 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 209 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de les finestres IV. Next is back through Cueva moma.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva moma write-up.
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back through Cueva moma, late in the day. Next is Abrigo II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo II. That is the ride.
Abrigo II → Cueva moma is 128 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva moma → Abric de les finestres IV is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de les finestres IV → back through Cueva moma is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva moma → Abrigo II is 133 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.