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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691 km from Montealegre del Castillo to Montealegre del Castillo, about 13 h 51 of riding. It goes by way of Abric Pedro más, Peñon de los machos, Abrigo de Rosser and Abric de Lambert. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Monte Arabí rises from the high plain north of Yecla like a ship run aground, a lonely mass of sandstone with flat top and fluted sides, and locals have told stories about it for centuries: Moorish treasure, enchanted caves, a hidden city. The real treasure is painted. The Cantos de la Visera shelters on its slopes hold prehistoric rock art, including Levantine figures of animals and schematic signs, and they belong to the great series of Mediterranean rock art sites listed by UNESCO. There are also strange carved holes and basins in the rock, whose purpose is still debated.
Read the complete Cantos de la Visera I write-up.
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Cantos de la Visera I is where the day begins. Next is Abric Pedro más.
Almansa announces itself from far away: a castle perched on a limestone crag right in the middle of the town, its walls and towers silhouetted against the sky. The town sits at the eastern edge of La Mancha, where the high plateau meets the mountains of Valencia, and it was here, in April 1707, that one of the decisive battles of the War of the Spanish Succession was fought, when the Bourbon army defeated an allied force and secured the throne of Spain for Philip V. A monument on the battlefield and a museum in town tell the story. In the hills to the north, near Alpera, the Abric Pedro Mas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Cueva de la Vieja is one of the best-known Levantine sites, with archers, deer and goats.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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Abric Pedro más comes up about 147 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 190 km into the recorded legs you reach Peñon de los machos. Next is Abrigo de Rosser.
Near Bicorp, in the dry, folded hills of inland Valencia, one of the most famous images in prehistoric art was found in 1920: a figure clinging to ropes on a cliff, reaching into a hole surrounded by bees, a honey gatherer painted thousands of years ago in the Cuevas de la Araña. The Abrigo de Rosser lies in the same rugged area of the Canal de Navarrés and the Júcar gorges, one of many shelters with Levantine paintings in this region, and together they form part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. Bicorp has a small interpretation centre, and guided visits to some shelters can be arranged.
Read the complete Abrigo de Rosser write-up.
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Abrigo de Rosser, about halfway. Next is Abric de Lambert.
Cullera is not where most people would look for prehistory. It is a busy beach town at the mouth of the Júcar, with high-rise apartments along the sand, a lighthouse on the point and rice fields stretching inland toward the Albufera lagoon. But the town has a mountain at its back, a limestone outcrop crowned by a castle and a sanctuary, and in that rock there are shelters, including the one known as the Abric de Lambert.
Read the complete Abric de Lambert write-up.
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Abric de Lambert sits at 169 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de Rosser.
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Read the complete Abrigo de Rosser write-up.
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back through Abrigo de Rosser comes up about 427 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
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Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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about 500 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Peñon de los machos. Next is back through Abric Pedro más.
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Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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back through Abric Pedro más, late in the day. Next is Cantos de la Visera I.
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Read the complete Cantos de la Visera I write-up.
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The route ends here after 691 km.
Cantos de la Visera I → Abric Pedro más is 147 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric Pedro más → Peñon de los machos is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → Abrigo de Rosser is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Rosser → Abric de Lambert is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Lambert → back through Abrigo de Rosser is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Rosser → back through Peñon de los machos is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → back through Abric Pedro más is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric Pedro más → Cantos de la Visera I is 146 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.