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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238 km from Castell de Castells to Castell de Castells, about 5 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Barranc del Salt- Abric l, Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, Abric de la Penya and back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Castell de Castells is a village of about four hundred people at the heart of the Marina Alta's high valleys, and it is one of the most important places for rock art in the Valencian country. The Barranc de Galistero is a ravine nearby, and the shelter in it belongs to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin that UNESCO inscribed in 1998. The village is also near the Pla de Petracos, a famous rock shelter with remarkable paintings that attracts specialists from around the world, so a day in the area can include several sites. The painted shelters are fragile and often have limited access, so check before you go.
Read the complete Barranc de Galistero write-up.
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Barranc de Galistero is where the day begins. Next is Barranc del Salt- Abric l.
Benilloba is a tiny village in the Comtat, the mountainous district north of Alcoy in the province of Alicante, with fewer than a thousand people, a church and a cluster of stone houses among olive and almond groves. The Barranc del Salt, the waterfall ravine, cuts through the hills nearby, and its first shelter is one of the many painted sites in the region that are part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The Comtat and the neighbouring Alcoià are particularly rich in this heritage, with all three main styles of prehistoric painting represented: Levantine, schematic and the older Macro-schematic, unique to this small area, with large, enigmatic figures.
Read the complete Barranc del Salt- Abric l write-up.
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Barranc del Salt- Abric l comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
Ibi is the toy capital of Spain, a fact that surprises everyone who rides through this mountain town in the hills of Alicante. Since the early twentieth century, workshops here have produced dolls, tin toys and plastic figures, and the Valencian Toy Museum tells the story. The rock shelter named Barranc de les Coves Abric I lies in the hills between Ibi and Alcoy, in a ravine whose name simply means the gully of the caves.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abric I write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de les Coves- Abric I. Next is Abric de la Penya.
Moixent, or Mogente in Castilian, stands at the head of a corridor that has carried traffic between the Valencian coast and the interior of Castile for as long as anyone has been moving goods. The old road, the railway and now the motorway all funnel through here, between low limestone ridges with vineyards and olive groves in the valley floor. The rock shelter known as the Abric de la Penya sits in this landscape a few kilometres from the town, close also to Vallada.
Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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Abric de la Penya, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc del Salt- Abric l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de Galistero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de Galistero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranc de Galistero closes the day.
Barranc de Galistero → Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc del Salt- Abric l → Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → Abric de la Penya is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l → Barranc de Galistero is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.