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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A 263 km round trip from Pego - roughly 4 h 26 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abric de Gontrán, Cueva de la Vieja and back through Abric de Gontrán. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. 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.
Read the complete Barran de Parets write-up.
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Barran de Parets is where the day begins. Next is Abric de Gontrán.
Head south-west from Xàtiva along the old road to Castile and you climb gently into a corridor between two mountain ranges, the Serra Grossa on one side and the Serra de Enguera on the other. The town of Moixent sits where the corridor narrows, with Vallada just downstream and the vineyards of Fontanars dels Alforins on the plateau beyond. The Abric de Gontran lies in the hills just outside Moixent.
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Abric de Gontrán comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Vieja.
In 1910 a local man led researchers to a shallow shelter above the plain of Alpera in Albacete, and the paintings they found there became some of the best known examples of Levantine rock art in Spain. The Cueva de la Vieja shows archers with feathered headdresses, women in long skirts, deer and goats, all painted with a sense of movement that still feels immediate. The nearby Cueva del Queso holds more figures. Both are part of the UNESCO listing for the rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean, and guided visits run from the village, so check times with Alpera's tourist office.
Read the complete Cueva de la Vieja write-up.
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about 132 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Vieja. Next is back through Abric de Gontrán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Gontrán write-up.
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back through Abric de Gontrán, late in the day. Next is Barran de Parets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barran de Parets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barran de Parets. That is the ride.
Barran de Parets → Abric de Gontrán is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Gontrán → Cueva de la Vieja is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Vieja → back through Abric de Gontrán is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Gontrán → Barran de Parets is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.