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 269 km round trip from Pego - roughly 5 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II, Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, Abric de la Penya and back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I. The line favours views over speed.
In the Vall de Gallinera, a long, narrow valley in the mountains of northern Alicante, the Benirrama shelter is one of a cluster of rock art sites, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin World Heritage listing. The valley is particularly rich in macro-schematic art, a distinctive style found only in this region, with large, abstract human figures and symbols painted in red, and the nearby Pla de Petracos is the most famous site of this style. Benirrama itself is also the name of a ruined Moorish castle on a hill above the valley.
Read the complete Benirrama- Abric I write-up.
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Benirrama- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II.
Cocentaina lies in the green hollow of the Comtat, a valley in the Alicante hills, with its palace and castle watching the Serpis river from the edge of town. Above and to the east rise limestone crags, among them the Penyó de les Carrasques, named for the carrasca, the holm oak that clings to dry slopes here. A rock shelter in the cliff, Abric II, preserves prehistoric paintings, part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listed by UNESCO in 1998. As elsewhere in this tradition, the figures are small and fragile, and access can be restricted.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II write-up.
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Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
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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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de les Coves- Abric I. 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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Abric de la Penya, about halfway. Next is back through 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.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I sits at 118 km, about halfway. Next is back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II comes up about 212 km into the recorded legs. Next is Benirrama- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Benirrama- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Benirrama- Abric I closes the day.
Benirrama- Abric I → Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II → Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → Abric de la Penya is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric II → Benirrama- Abric I is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.