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 Bicorp it runs 263 km to Bicorp; allow about 7 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of Abric del Cinto de la Ventana, Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia and back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bicorp is a small village in the folds of the Valencian interior, west of Xàtiva, in a country of pine, scrub and deep ravines that falls towards the Júcar and the Sierra de Martés. The Cueva de la Araña, the Spider Cave, is one of the most famous rock art sites in Spain, and the main reason to come. In its shelter is a painted scene of a figure climbing a rope or ladder of plant fibre to collect honey from a wild hive, with bees flying around. It is thought to be several thousand years old, and it is one of the finest and most human images of the Levantine rock art, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I write-up.
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Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I is where the day begins. Next is Abric del Cinto de la Ventana.
South-west of Valencia the Júcar river has carved a long, winding gorge through the limestone, and the country on either side is some of the most rugged in the region. The Macizo del Caroig, a high limestone massif of pine and scrub, rises to more than eleven hundred metres, and the villages of Millares and Dos Aguas are small places tucked into the valleys at its foot. The Abric del Cinto de la Ventana is a rock shelter in the nearby cliffs, and belongs to the Mediterranean Basin rock art group listed by UNESCO in 1998, the red Levantine paintings painted by prehistoric hunters.
Read the complete Abric del Cinto de la Ventana write-up.
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Abric del Cinto de la Ventana comes up about 54 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 103 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I sits at 112 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Cinto de la Ventana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Cinto de la Ventana write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Cinto de la Ventana comes up about 207 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I closes the day.
Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I → Abric del Cinto de la Ventana is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Cinto de la Ventana → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → back through Abric del Cinto de la Ventana is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Cinto de la Ventana → Cueva de la Araña- Abrigo I is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.