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 202 km round trip from Ibi - roughly 4 h 41 in the saddle. The stops in between: Barranc del Salt- Abric l, Penya de Benicadell, Racó de Gorgorí- Abric I and back through Penya de Benicadell. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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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Barranc de les Coves- Abric I 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 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Penya de Benicadell.
From almost anywhere in the southern half of Valencia province you can see it: a long, jagged ridge of grey limestone with a sharp tooth at its eastern end, standing on the skyline like a broken saw. The Benicadell, at 1,104 metres, separates the Vall d'Albaida to the north from the Comtat to the south, and the sharp summit, the Penya, is the mountain's signature. At its foot lie the villages of Beniarrés, Ràfol de Salem and Otos.
Read the complete Penya de Benicadell write-up.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Penya de Benicadell. Next is Racó de Gorgorí- Abric I.
The Marina Alta is the region of Alicante where the coast gives way to a jumble of limestone mountains and deep ravines, and a little inland from the beach resorts is a country that feels like a different world. Castell de Castells, Vall d'Ebo and Benimantell are all small villages, with a few hundred inhabitants each, scattered among terraces of almonds, olives and carob. The Racó de Gorgorí is a ravine in this country, and the shelter named Abric I is one of the Levantine rock art sites that UNESCO listed in 1998 as part of the Mediterranean-arc group. A short distance away is Pla de Petracos, one of the best-known sites in the area, with painted figures that have been studied for decades.
Read the complete Racó de Gorgorí- Abric I write-up.
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Racó de Gorgorí- Abric I, about halfway. Next is back through Penya de Benicadell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penya de Benicadell write-up.
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back through Penya de Benicadell sits at 98 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 172 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I closes the day.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc del Salt- Abric l → Penya de Benicadell is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya de Benicadell → Racó de Gorgorí- Abric I is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó de Gorgorí- Abric I → back through Penya de Benicadell is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penya de Benicadell → back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l → Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.