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 493 km round trip from Castell de Castells - roughly 11 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: Coveta del mig- Abric I, Abric de la Penya, Abric del Voro and Barranco del Cabezo del moro. 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 Coveta del mig- Abric I.
Otos is a tiny village in the Vall d'Albaida, in the south of Valencia province, and it has an unusual claim to fame: its walls are decorated with dozens of sundials, designed by artists and scattered through the streets, making the village a kind of open-air museum of time. Nearby, in the hills around Otos, Bèlgida and Ráfol de Salem, prehistoric people left paintings in rock shelters, and the Coveta del Mig is one of the sites included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The art here includes schematic figures, simplified human and animal forms, and the area is part of a rich zone of rock art that extends into the mountains of the Alicante province to the south.
Read the complete Coveta del mig- Abric I write-up.
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Coveta del mig- Abric I comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 103 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Penya. Next is Abric del Voro.
The Canal de Navarrés is a wide valley in the interior of Valencia province, surrounded by limestone mountains and deep gorges, and the Abric del Voro lies in the hills between Quesa and Bicorp, two small villages in the heart of some of the wildest country in the region. It is one of the many rock shelters with prehistoric paintings in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The valley's most famous site is close by: the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, where a painting of a figure climbing ropes to collect honey from a wild bees' nest, surrounded by bees, is one of the best-known images of prehistoric art in Spain, often cited as one of the earliest depictions of honey gathering.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
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Abric del Voro, 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 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Voro.
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Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
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back through Abric del Voro comes up about 338 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric de la Penya.
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Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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about 389 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric de la Penya. Next is back through Coveta del mig- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta del mig- Abric I write-up.
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back through Coveta del mig- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Barranc de Galistero.
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Read the complete Barranc de Galistero write-up.
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The route ends here after 493 km.
Barranc de Galistero → Coveta del mig- Abric I is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta del mig- Abric I → Abric de la Penya is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → Abric del Voro is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Voro → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Abric del Voro is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Voro → back through Abric de la Penya is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Penya → back through Coveta del mig- Abric I is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta del mig- Abric I → Barranc de Galistero is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.