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 Castell de Castells it runs 301 km to Castell de Castells; allow about 6 h 36 of riding. On the way it passes Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l, El Pantanet, Abric del Garrofero and back through El Pantanet. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Castell de Castells is a village of fewer than five hundred people tucked under the Serrella ridge, and everything about it feels like the far end of something. The Morro Carrascal, the label given to this stretch of country, is a rocky crest above the Barranc de Bil.la, a dry ravine in the mountains of the Marina Alta where the Valencian coast gives way to a rumpled interior of limestone, pine and terraced slopes. The ravine holds painted shelters belonging to the Levantine rock art of the Spanish Mediterranean, which UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Barranc de Bil.la- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de Bil.la- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l.
Castelló de Rugat sits on the southern rim of the Vall d'Albaida, a broad valley in the south of Valencia province hemmed in by mountain ridges. On one side rises the long saw-toothed crest of the Benicadell, on the other the Serra de la Solana, and between them lies a patchwork of vineyards, olive groves and small towns with church towers. The Barranc de les Coves, the ravine of the caves, cuts into the slopes near Castelló de Rugat, Ràfol de Salem and Beniarrés, and its first shelter holds painted figures.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l write-up.
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Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Pantanet.
Few riders have heard of the Serra de Mariola, and that is a pity, because this little limestone range between Alcoi, Bocairent and Ontinyent is one of the most rewarding corners of inland Valencia. El Pantanet, near the village of Alfafara, is a small rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the many sites in the UNESCO listing of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. As with most of its sisters, it is protected and access may be limited, but the hills around it reward the trip on their own.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach El Pantanet. 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 back through El Pantanet.
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Read the complete El Pantanet write-up.
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back through El Pantanet sits at 134 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l.
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Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l write-up.
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back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l comes up about 257 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de Bil.la- Abric I, 33 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de Bil.la- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de Bil.la- Abric I closes the day.
Barranc de Bil.la- Abric I → Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l → El Pantanet is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Pantanet → Abric del Garrofero is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Garrofero → back through El Pantanet is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Pantanet → back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l → Barranc de Bil.la- Abric I is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.