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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293 km from Pego to Pego, about 5 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Port de Confrides- Abric I, Coveta del mig- Abric I, Barranc de les Coves- Abric I and back through Coveta del mig- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The cave called Cova Fosca means the dark cave, and the name is as plain as the country around it, a series of pale limestone ravines in the interior of the Marina Alta. Vall d'Ebo, Adsubia and Pego lie at the foot of the mountains, with villages of a few hundred people, and a land of terraced slopes where the Moriscos, the Muslim farmers who stayed after the Christian conquest, grew grain, grapes and almonds until their expulsion in 1609. After that the valleys emptied, and the terraces stand as monuments to a vanished community.
Read the complete Cova fosca write-up.
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Cova fosca is where the day begins. Next is Port de Confrides- Abric I.
Inland from Benidorm, barely half an hour from the high-rise towers and the beach crowds, the mountains of Alicante rise steeply and the whole mood changes. The Port de Confrides is the saddle on the CV-70 between the Guadalest valley and the upland basin of Confrides and Benasau, with the long limestone wall of the Sierra de Aitana to the south. Aitana, at 1,558 metres, is the highest peak in the province, and on a clear winter morning you can see the sea glittering behind you as you climb.
Read the complete Port de Confrides- Abric I write-up.
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Port de Confrides- Abric I comes up about 43 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 98 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.
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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 Confrides- Abric I.
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Read the complete Port de Confrides- Abric I write-up.
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back through Port de Confrides- Abric I comes up about 240 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova fosca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova fosca write-up.
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Cova fosca closes the day.
Cova fosca → Port de Confrides- Abric I is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port de Confrides- Abric I → Coveta del mig- Abric I is 55 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 Confrides- Abric I is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Port de Confrides- Abric I → Cova fosca is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.