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 Pego it runs 262 km to Pego; allow about 5 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II, Penya Escrita, Cova del mig dia and back through Penya Escrita. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Vall d'Ebo is a pocket of mountains behind the Costa Blanca where the sea is only half an hour away, yet the villages look as if they belong to another century. Adsubia and Vall d'Ebo are tiny settlements of a few hundred people, in a landscape of steep ravines, terraces and bare limestone walls. The Valencian word barranc, a ravine, is on the map everywhere, and each one has its own name. The Barranc de l'Infern, the Hell Ravine, nearby, is a famed walk on a path of thousands of stone steps that the Moriscos, Muslim farmers, built to link villages. They were expelled in 1609, and the terraces and steps are a legacy of their work.
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Barran de Parets is where the day begins. Next is Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II.
Cocentaina lies in the green hollow of the Comtat, a valley in the Alicante hills, with its palace and castle watching the Serpis river from the edge of town. Above and to the east rise limestone crags, among them the Penyó de les Carrasques, named for the carrasca, the holm oak that clings to dry slopes here. A rock shelter in the cliff, Abric II, preserves prehistoric paintings, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listed by UNESCO in 1998. As elsewhere in this tradition, the figures are small and fragile, and access can be restricted.
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Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Penya Escrita.
In the folded limestone hills behind the Costa Blanca, far enough inland that the resorts feel like another country, a rock shelter called Penya Escrita holds prehistoric paintings. The name means something like the written rock, which is what the people of Tàrbena and Bolulla called it long before archaeologists arrived. The figures belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO site made up of hundreds of shelters scattered from Catalonia down to Andalusia, painted by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago. They are small, faded and easy to miss, and they are best appreciated with patience rather than expectation.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Penya Escrita. Next is Cova del mig dia.
The Montgó dominates the coast between Dénia and Xàbia, a massive limestone mountain rising to 753 metres straight from the sea, its profile said to resemble a sleeping elephant. The Cova del Mig Dia, the cave of midday, is in the flanks of the Montgó, one of several caves and shelters on the mountain, some with traces of prehistoric occupation and rock art. The Montgó is a natural park, with paths leading through scrub and pine to caves, viewpoints and the summit.
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Cova del mig dia, about halfway. Next is back through Penya Escrita.
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back through Penya Escrita sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II write-up.
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back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II comes up about 217 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barran de Parets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barran de Parets write-up.
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Barran de Parets closes the day.
Barran de Parets → Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II → Penya Escrita is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya Escrita → Cova del mig dia is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova del mig dia → back through Penya Escrita is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penya Escrita → back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II → Barran de Parets is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.