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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208 km from Cocentaina to Cocentaina, about 5 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Cova Llarga, Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I and back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners. The line favours views over speed.
Between Cocentaina and Alcoy, in the hilly interior of Alicante province, a small ravine called the Barranc de Mastec holds rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. This corner of Spain is particularly rich in it, with styles ranging from the naturalistic Levantine figures of hunters and animals to the strange, abstract macro-schematic art that seems unique to these valleys. The ravine is surrounded by terraced olive and almond groves, pine woods and limestone crags.
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Barranc de mastec is where the day begins. Next is Cova Llarga.
The Benicadell is the mountain that tells you where you are in this part of Valencia. Its long, sharp limestone ridge, topped by a distinctive rocky tooth, separates the Vall d'Albaida from the valleys of Alcoy and Cocentaina, and on clear days it is visible from the coast. The Cova Llarga, the long cave, sits on the southern side of this world, in the folded hills near Beniarrés, Terrateig and Planes, and it belongs to the scatter of small sites that record people living, painting and sheltering in these hills since prehistory.
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Cova Llarga comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
Somewhere up in these limestone folds, thousands of years ago, someone painted little figures on the rock that are still there. The Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is one of many painted shelters in the Marina Alta, the north-eastern corner of the province of Alicante, which form part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The shelters hold Levantine, Schematic and older Macroschematic paintings, showing hunters, animals and abstract shapes, and many are protected by fences and only visitable with a guide. The valleys around Murla, Orba and Tormos are full of them.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners. Next is Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
The Marina Alta is the northern Costa Blanca at its most mixed: villas on every slope, a ribbon of coast running from Moraira to Jávea, and just behind it, farm terraces, dry stone walls and small rock shelters where prehistoric people left their mark. The Cova de la Catxupa, near Teulada and Benitachell, is one of them, a shelter in the hills a few kilometres from the sea, listed with the other Mediterranean rock art of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I, about halfway. Next is back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
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Read the complete Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners write-up.
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back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova Llarga.
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Read the complete Cova Llarga write-up.
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back through Cova Llarga comes up about 180 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de mastec.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de mastec write-up.
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Barranc de mastec closes the day.
Barranc de mastec → Cova Llarga is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova Llarga → Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → back through Cova Llarga is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova Llarga → Barranc de mastec is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.