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 Puçol it runs 110 km to Puçol; allow about 2 h 00 of riding. The stops in between: La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I and back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Puçol is a modest, busy town on the coast north of Valencia, famous locally for its orange groves, its beach and its long sandy shore. Inland from it the land rises quickly into the Sierra Calderona, a low range of pine, rosemary and dry gullies. The Barranc del Diable, the Devil's Ravine, is one of many small ravines cut into the foothills, and the covacha, a shallow cave, holds a few rock paintings from the Levantine tradition. These belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art UNESCO listed in 1998, and they are typically small, red and easy to miss unless a guide shows you where to look.
Read the complete Covacha del Barranc del Diable write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Covacha del Barranc del Diable is where the day begins. Next is La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia.
In the heart of Valencia's old town, a Gothic building with crenellated walls and gargoyles looks more like a castle than a market, and that was rather the point. The Lonja de la Seda, the silk exchange, was built in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries when Valencia was one of the richest cities in the Mediterranean, and it was meant to show the power of its merchants. Its great hall, the Sala de Contratación, is one of the masterpieces of late Gothic architecture, with slender columns that twist like palm trunks up to a ribbed vault. It was listed by UNESCO in 1996.
Read the complete La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia write-up.
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La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Alginet sits in the Ribera Alta, the flat, fertile plain south of Valencia where the Júcar river spreads out among orange groves, rice fields and small towns. To the west, the plain meets the first hills of the interior, low ridges of limestone covered in pine and scrub. The Barranc de la Falaguera, the ravine of the fern, cuts into these hills near Alginet, Alfarp and Benifaió.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. Next is back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, late in the day. Next is Covacha del Barranc del Diable.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacha del Barranc del Diable write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Covacha del Barranc del Diable. That is the ride.
Covacha del Barranc del Diable → La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → Covacha del Barranc del Diable is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.