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 Palma de Gandía it runs 237 km to Palma de Gandía; allow about 5 h 43 of riding. It goes by way of Penya de Benicadell, Abric del Gegant, Abric del Garrofero and back through Abric del Gegant. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Behind Gandia, the orange groves climb into the folded limestone hills of La Safor, and among the tiny villages there, Palma de Gandía and Ador sit almost touching each other at the foot of the slopes. Cueva de la Clau is one of the many rock shelters in the Valencian hills that form part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a scattered collection of hundreds of sites where prehistoric people painted hunters, animals, dancers and abstract signs on limestone overhangs.
Read the complete Cueva de la Clau write-up.
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Cueva de la Clau is where the day begins. Next is Penya de Benicadell.
From almost anywhere in the southern half of Valencia province you can see it: a long, jagged ridge of grey limestone with a sharp tooth at its eastern end, standing on the skyline like a broken saw. The Benicadell, at 1,104 metres, separates the Vall d'Albaida to the north from the Comtat to the south, and the sharp summit, the Penya, is the mountain's signature. At its foot lie the villages of Beniarrés, Ràfol de Salem and Otos.
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Penya de Benicadell comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Gegant.
Ontinyent is the kind of Valencian town that does not bother selling itself to tourists, which is part of its charm. It grew rich on textiles, and the old quarter of La Vila, perched above the gorge of the Clariano river, still has a fine bell tower that is among the tallest in the region. The Abric del Gegant, a rock shelter recorded among the prehistoric painted sites of eastern Spain, sits in the hills just outside town towards Bocairent, where the valley narrows and the Serra de Mariola begins to rise.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Gegant. Next is Abric del Garrofero.
Bicorp is a small village in the Canal de Navarrés, a valley in the interior of Valencia province walled in by rugged mountains and deep ravines. The surrounding Macizo del Caroig is one of the largest wild areas in the Valencian Community, a vast tableland of pine, scrub and gorges cut by the Júcar's tributaries. The Abric del Garrofero, the shelter of the carob tree, lies in the hills near Bicorp, Quesa and Navarrés.
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Abric del Garrofero, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Gegant.
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Read the complete Abric del Gegant write-up.
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back through Abric del Gegant sits at 126 km, about halfway. Next is back through Penya de Benicadell.
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Read the complete Penya de Benicadell write-up.
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back through Penya de Benicadell comes up about 203 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Clau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Clau write-up.
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Cueva de la Clau closes the day.
Cueva de la Clau → Penya de Benicadell is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya de Benicadell → Abric del Gegant is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Gegant → Abric del Garrofero is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Garrofero → back through Abric del Gegant is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Gegant → back through Penya de Benicadell is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penya de Benicadell → Cueva de la Clau is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.