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 348 km round trip from Alginet - roughly 11 h 56 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric de la Cocina, Abric del Voro, Peñon de los machos and back through Abric del Voro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Alginet sits in the Ribera Alta, the flat, fertile plain south of Valencia where the Júcar river spreads out among orange groves, rice fields and small towns. To the west, the plain meets the first hills of the interior, low ridges of limestone covered in pine and scrub. The Barranc de la Falaguera, the ravine of the fern, cuts into these hills near Alginet, Alfarp and Benifaió.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Abric de la Cocina.
The Abric de la Cocina, the kitchen shelter, is a rock overhang in the gorges of the Valencian hinterland near Dos Aguas, and on its walls prehistoric painters left scenes of archers, animals and geometric signs. It is one of the sites of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, inscribed by UNESCO in 1998, which covers hundreds of shelters along the eastern side of Spain with paintings showing hunting, gathering, dancing and warfare, with lively human figures in red and black. Excavations at the shelter also revealed tools and pottery, showing that people lived here over thousands of years.
Read the complete Abric de la Cocina write-up.
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Abric de la Cocina comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Voro. Next is Peñon de los machos.
Cofrentes is a village at the confluence of two rivers, the Júcar and the Cabriel, in the interior of Valencia province, and it has a curious mix of attractions. Above it stands a castle on a crag. Nearby rises the Cerro de Agrás, the only recently active volcano in the Valencian Community, a dark cone of basalt in a landscape of limestone. And just outside the village, the cooling towers of the Cofrentes nuclear power station send plumes of steam into the sky. The Peñón de los Machos, a rocky outcrop with painted shelters, lies in the hills between Cofrentes, Jalance and Jarafuel.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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Peñon de los machos, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Voro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
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back through Abric del Voro sits at 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de la Cocina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Cocina write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de la Cocina comes up about 299 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I closes the day.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → Abric de la Cocina is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Cocina → Abric del Voro is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Voro → Peñon de los machos is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → back through Abric del Voro is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Voro → back through Abric de la Cocina is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Cocina → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.