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 Olocau it runs 246 km to Olocau; allow about 5 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Peñón de Santo Espíritu, La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I and back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. The line favours views over speed.
The Serra Calderona is the green ridge that rises north-west of Valencia, separating the city's plain from the valleys of the interior. It is a natural park of pine forest, cork oak and rocky hills, close enough to the city for weekend walkers and riders, yet surprisingly wild once you get into it. The rock shelter of Balma de la Fabriqueta lies near the village of Olocau on its southern side, one of the painted shelters that make up the Levantine rock art inscribed by UNESCO. Access to many of these sites is restricted or guided, so check with the local tourist office before trying to visit.
Read the complete Balma de la fabriqueta write-up.
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Balma de la fabriqueta is where the day begins. Next is Peñón de Santo Espíritu.
Behind the orange groves of the Camp de Morvedre, a few kilometres inland from Sagunto, the land rises into the Sierra Calderona, a low range of pine woods, scrub and red sandstone that separates the coastal plain from the dry interior. The Peñón de Santo Espíritu is a rocky outcrop in these hills above the village of Gilet, and it carries prehistoric rock art in the Levantine tradition, the style of painted hunters, animals and human figures found in shelters along the Mediterranean side of Spain and listed by UNESCO as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The paintings are fragile and often protected, so do not expect to wander up and touch anything.
Read the complete Peñón de Santo Espíritu write-up.
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Peñón de Santo Espíritu comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Alginet sits in the Ribera Alta, the flat, fertile plain south of Valencia where the Júcar river spreads out among orange groves, rice fields and small towns. To the west, the plain meets the first hills of the interior, low ridges of limestone covered in pine and scrub. The Barranc de la Falaguera, the ravine of the fern, cuts into these hills near Alginet, Alfarp and Benifaió.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, about halfway. 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.
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back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia sits at 114 km, about halfway. Next is back through Peñón de Santo Espíritu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peñón de Santo Espíritu write-up.
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back through Peñón de Santo Espíritu comes up about 188 km into the recorded legs. Next is Balma de la fabriqueta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Balma de la fabriqueta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Balma de la fabriqueta closes the day.
Balma de la fabriqueta → Peñón de Santo Espíritu is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñón de Santo Espíritu → La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → back through Peñón de Santo Espíritu is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñón de Santo Espíritu → Balma de la fabriqueta is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.