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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From Teulada it runs 320 km to Teulada; allow about 7 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Abric de les Torrudanes, Abric de la Paella, Abric de la Penya and Abric del Voro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Marina Alta is the northern Costa Blanca at its most mixed: villas on every slope, a ribbon of coast running from Moraira to Jávea, and just behind it, farm terraces, dry stone walls and small rock shelters where prehistoric people left their mark. The Cova de la Catxupa, near Teulada and Benitachell, is one of them, a shelter in the hills a few kilometres from the sea, listed with the other Mediterranean rock art of the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
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Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Abric de les Torrudanes.
In the Vall d'Ebo, a small valley in the mountains of northern Alicante, the Abric de les Torrudanes is a rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of many in the area that form part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin World Heritage listing. The paintings include human figures and animals in the Levantine style, and the shelter's location, on a cliff above the valley, offers views over the mountains. Nearby, the Cova del Rull is a show cave with stalactites and stalagmites.
Read the complete Abric de les Torrudanes write-up.
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Abric de les Torrudanes comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la Paella.
Muro de Alcoy and Cocentaina sit side by side in the valley of the Serpis river, in the Comtat, a district of northern Alicante surrounded by mountains. Cocentaina is crowned by a castle with a tall tower, and below it lies an old town with a palace of the Counts of Cocentaina and a Franciscan convent. The Abric de la Paella, named after the paella pan perhaps because of its shape, lies in the hills between the two towns.
Read the complete Abric de la Paella write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Paella. 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 Abric del Voro.
The Canal de Navarrés is a wide valley in the interior of Valencia province, surrounded by limestone mountains and deep gorges, and the Abric del Voro lies in the hills between Quesa and Bicorp, two small villages in the heart of some of the wildest country in the region. It is one of the many rock shelters with prehistoric paintings in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The valley's most famous site is close by: the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, where a painting of a figure climbing ropes to collect honey from a wild bees' nest, surrounded by bees, is one of the best-known images of prehistoric art in Spain, often cited as one of the earliest depictions of honey gathering.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
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Abric del Voro sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de la Penya.
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Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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back through Abric de la Penya comes up about 210 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric de la Paella.
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Read the complete Abric de la Paella write-up.
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about 246 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric de la Paella. Next is back through Abric de les Torrudanes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de les Torrudanes write-up.
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back through Abric de les Torrudanes, late in the day. Next is Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
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The route ends here after 320 km.
Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → Abric de les Torrudanes is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de les Torrudanes → Abric de la Paella is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Paella → Abric de la Penya is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → Abric del Voro is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Voro → back through Abric de la Penya is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Penya → back through Abric de la Paella is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Paella → back through Abric de les Torrudanes is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de les Torrudanes → Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.