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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264 km from Castell de Castells to Castell de Castells, about 5 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Port de Penaguila- Abric II, Coveta del mig- Abric I, Barranc de les Coves- Abric I and back through Coveta del mig- Abric I. The line favours views over speed.
The Vall d'Ebo is one of the quietest places in the Marina Alta, a high valley of fewer than four hundred people in the mountains behind Dénia, and the Cova Alta, the High Cave, stands above it on the slopes of the surrounding ridges. Castell de Castells is the nearest village, about three kilometres off, and Benimantell and Vall d'Ebo are the neighbours. The shelter carries painted figures in the Levantine style, protected with the rest of the region's rock art by UNESCO, and it is one of a group of caves that the rides tie together around the Port de Penàguila.
Read the complete Cova Alta- Abric I write-up.
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Cova Alta- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Port de Penaguila- Abric II.
The Port de Penàguila is a mountain pass in the interior of Alicante province, on the road between Alcoy and the Vall de Guadalest, where the hills of the Comtat rise toward the Serra d'Aitana, the highest range in the province. The village of Penàguila, below the pass, is a small, ancient place huddled beneath a castle on a rocky crest, and Benilloba, Cocentaina and Alcoy are all close. The second shelter of the Port de Penàguila is one of several painted sites in the area.
Read the complete Port de Penaguila- Abric II write-up.
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Port de Penaguila- Abric II comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coveta del mig- Abric I.
Otos is a tiny village in the Vall d'Albaida, in the south of Valencia province, and it has an unusual claim to fame: its walls are decorated with dozens of sundials, designed by artists and scattered through the streets, making the village a kind of open-air museum of time. Nearby, in the hills around Otos, Bèlgida and Ráfol de Salem, prehistoric people left paintings in rock shelters, and the Coveta del Mig is one of the sites included in the World Heritage site of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The art here includes schematic figures, simplified human and animal forms, and the area is part of a rich zone of rock art that extends into the mountains of the Alicante province to the south.
Read the complete Coveta del mig- Abric I write-up.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Coveta del mig- Abric I. 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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Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, about halfway. Next is back through Coveta del mig- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta del mig- Abric I write-up.
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back through Coveta del mig- Abric I sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port de Penaguila- Abric II write-up.
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back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II comes up about 226 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova Alta- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova Alta- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cova Alta- Abric I closes the day.
Cova Alta- Abric I → Port de Penaguila- Abric II is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port de Penaguila- Abric II → Coveta del mig- Abric I is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta del mig- Abric I → Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → back through Coveta del mig- Abric I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta del mig- Abric I → back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Port de Penaguila- Abric II → Cova Alta- Abric I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.