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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Montealegre del Castillo it runs 303 km to Montealegre del Castillo; allow about 5 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Abric de Gontrán, Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I and back through Abric de Gontrán. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cantos de la Visera I is where the day begins. Next is Abric de Gontrán.
Head south-west from Xàtiva along the old road to Castile and you climb gently into a corridor between two mountain ranges, the Serra Grossa on one side and the Serra de Enguera on the other. The town of Moixent sits where the corridor narrows, with Vallada just downstream and the vineyards of Fontanars dels Alforins on the plateau beyond. The Abric de Gontran lies in the hills just outside Moixent.
Read the complete Abric de Gontrán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abric de Gontrán comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I.
The Aitana range is the highest in the Alicante hinterland, a long limestone ridge rising to more than fifteen hundred metres above the Costa Blanca, and the village of Benimantell lies in a valley at its foot, with Castell de Castells and Sella tucked into the hills to the east. The Penyó de les Carrasques is a rocky outcrop in this country, and the shelter in it is part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998. The paintings are in the Levantine style, small red figures of hunters and animals, and they look out over a landscape of terraced valleys, quite unlike the high-rise beach towns twenty kilometres away.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I. Next is back through Abric de Gontrán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Gontrán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de Gontrán, late in the day. Next is Cantos de la Visera I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cantos de la Visera I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cantos de la Visera I. That is the ride.
Cantos de la Visera I → Abric de Gontrán is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric de Gontrán → Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I → back through Abric de Gontrán is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Gontrán → Cantos de la Visera I is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.