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 144 km round trip from Cocentaina - roughly 3 h 11 in the saddle. The stops in between: Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I, Coves Roges- Abric II and back through Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Barranc de mastec write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranc de mastec is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I.
The Vall d'Albaida is the quiet valley south of Xàtiva where the Valencian hinterland starts to climb towards the mountains of Alicante, and Otos, Ráfol de Salem and Bèlgida are tiny villages scattered among its folds. The Barranc de Carbonera is one of the ravines that cut into the limestone slopes, and the shelter in it is part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art group that UNESCO inscribed in 1998. The Peñón de los Machos, another painted rock nearby, is on the same ride. The paintings belong to the Levantine tradition, red figures of people and animals painted on the walls of small overhangs in the cliffs.
Read the complete Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coves Roges- Abric II.
The Serpis river runs through the green, folded country of the Comtat, west of Alcoi, and its valley is one of the prettiest in the Valencian interior. Planes, Benimarfull and Beniarrés are small villages in the hills, farming olive and almond and cherry, and the old Moorish heritage is easy to find in the narrow streets and the names. The Coves Roges, the Red Caves, are a series of rock shelters in the nearby cliffs, and they hold paintings that are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998. Abric II is one of them, and the red paint on the rock is faint but clear.
Read the complete Coves Roges- Abric II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Coves Roges- Abric II. Next is back through Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Barranc de mastec.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de mastec write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranc de mastec. That is the ride.
Barranc de mastec → Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I → Coves Roges- Abric II is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coves Roges- Abric II → back through Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I → Barranc de mastec is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.