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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219 km from Puçol to Puçol, about 4 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, Abric de la Cocina and back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. The line favours views over speed.
Hannibal is the name that should come to mind as you ride toward this part of the Valencian coast. In 219 BC the Carthaginian general besieged the Iberian city of Saguntum, now Sagunto, just north of Puçol, and the eight-month siege that followed set off the Second Punic War. The city fell, and Rome declared war. The castle that crowns the hill at Sagunto today is a long, thin fortress with Roman, Moorish and medieval layers, and its Roman theatre has been restored to a degree that some people find controversial but nobody finds dull.
Read the complete Covacha Picayo- abrigo l write-up.
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Covacha Picayo- abrigo l 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 Abric de la Cocina.
The Abric de la Cocina, the kitchen shelter, is a rock overhang in the gorges of the Valencian hinterland near Dos Aguas, and on its walls prehistoric painters left scenes of archers, animals and geometric signs. It is one of the sites of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, inscribed by UNESCO in 1998, which covers hundreds of shelters along the eastern side of Spain with paintings showing hunting, gathering, dancing and warfare, with lively human figures in red and black. Excavations at the shelter also revealed tools and pottery, showing that people lived here over thousands of years.
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Abric de la Cocina, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
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Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I sits at 113 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 178 km into the recorded legs. Next is Covacha Picayo- abrigo l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacha Picayo- abrigo l write-up.
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Covacha Picayo- abrigo l closes the day.
Covacha Picayo- abrigo l → 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 → Abric de la Cocina is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Cocina → back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 Picayo- abrigo l is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.