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 Tormos it runs 511 km to Tormos; allow about 11 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Barranc de frainos- Abric I, Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I, Abric del Garrofero and Barranco del Cabezo del moro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Tormos and Sagra are tiny villages at the foot of the mountains in the north of Alicante province, at the point where the plain of the Marina Alta meets the hills. They are surrounded by orange groves and orchards, with the mountains of the Vall de Laguar and the Serra del Migdia rising steeply behind. The Barranc de la Palla, the ravine of the straw, cuts into the hills near Tormos, close also to Orba and the town of Pego.
Read the complete Barraac de la Palla write-up.
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Barraac de la Palla is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de frainos- Abric I.
The mountains behind Benidorm are a world away from the high-rise hotels and the beaches. Inland from the Costa Blanca, the land rises quickly into a jumble of limestone ridges, the highest of which, the Serra d'Aitana, reaches over fifteen hundred metres, the roof of the province of Alicante. Between Sella, Benilloba and Relleu, deep in this rugged country, the Barranc de Frainos holds a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The sites here are small and fragile, and access is usually limited to guided visits, but the landscape is worth the journey.
Read the complete Barranc de frainos- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de frainos- Abric I comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I.
The painted shelter of Barranc d'Alpadull sits in the folds of the Serra de Mariola, the limestone massif that rises between Bocairent, Alfafara and Agres in the inland corner where Valencia, Alicante and the old kingdom's hill country all meet. It is one of the many small overhangs in eastern Spain that carry Levantine rock art, the group of sites inscribed together by UNESCO as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. Do not expect a museum. These are faint, reddish figures under a lip of stone, usually fenced, often hard to read unless the light is low and raking, and part of the pleasure is simply knowing that hunters drew here thousands of years before anyone thought of building a road up this valley.
Read the complete Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I write-up.
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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I. Next is Abric del Garrofero.
Bicorp is a small village in the Canal de Navarrés, a valley in the interior of Valencia province walled in by rugged mountains and deep ravines. The surrounding Macizo del Caroig is one of the largest wild areas in the Valencian Community, a vast tableland of pine, scrub and gorges cut by the Júcar's tributaries. The Abric del Garrofero, the shelter of the carob tree, lies in the hills near Bicorp, Quesa and Navarrés.
Read the complete Abric del Garrofero write-up.
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Abric del Garrofero, about halfway. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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Barranco del Cabezo del moro sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Garrofero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Garrofero write-up.
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back through Abric del Garrofero comes up about 348 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I write-up.
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about 411 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I. Next is back through Barranc de frainos- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de frainos- Abric I write-up.
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back through Barranc de frainos- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Barraac de la Palla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barraac de la Palla write-up.
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The route ends here after 511 km.
Barraac de la Palla → Barranc de frainos- Abric I is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de frainos- Abric I → Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I → Abric del Garrofero is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Garrofero → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Abric del Garrofero is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Garrofero → back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I → back through Barranc de frainos- Abric I is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de frainos- Abric I → Barraac de la Palla is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.