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 323 km round trip from Benigànim - roughly 6 h 00 in the saddle. It goes by way of Barranco del Cabezo del moro, Abrigo del Buen Aire I and back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bellús is a small village in the valley of the Albaida river in southern Valencia, just upstream from where the river flows into a reservoir and then joins the Júcar. The old village was partly flooded by the reservoir, and the new one stands on higher ground. The Cova de la Petxina, the cave of the shell, is in the hills near the village, close to Guadasequies and Genovés.
Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
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Cova de la Petxina is where the day begins. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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Barranco del Cabezo del moro comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Buen Aire I.
Jumilla country is dry, wide and honest. The town sits in the far north of Murcia where it bulges up towards Albacete, surrounded by limestone sierras, almond groves and vineyards of Monastrell grapes that make some of the most powerful red wine in Spain. A few kilometres outside town, in the folds of these hills, lie a group of small rock shelters known as the Abrigos del Buen Aire. They belong to the long chain of prehistoric painted sites strung along the eastern side of the peninsula that UNESCO lists together as the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Abrigo del Buen Aire I write-up.
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about 162 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Buen Aire I. Next is back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro, late in the day. Next is Cova de la Petxina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cova de la Petxina. That is the ride.
Cova de la Petxina → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Abrigo del Buen Aire I is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Buen Aire I → back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Cova de la Petxina is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.