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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421 km from Alpera to Alpera, about 7 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de las Cañas I, Abric de Lambert and back through Abrigo de las Cañas I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In 1910 a local man led researchers to a shallow shelter above the plain of Alpera in Albacete, and the paintings they found there became some of the best known examples of Levantine rock art in Spain. The Cueva de la Vieja shows archers with feathered headdresses, women in long skirts, deer and goats, all painted with a sense of movement that still feels immediate. The nearby Cueva del Queso holds more figures. Both are part of the UNESCO listing for the rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean, and guided visits run from the village, so check times with Alpera's tourist office.
Read the complete Cueva de la Vieja write-up.
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Cueva de la Vieja is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de las Cañas I.
Millares is a village of fewer than six hundred people in the interior of Valencia province, and the whole district feels like a place the twentieth century forgot to modernise. The land is a mix of limestone gorges, dry terraces and pine forest, with the Júcar river running through a deep canyon to the south, and the reservoirs of Cortes and Naranjero lighting the valley floor with turquoise water. The roads wind through small farming settlements, past carob and olive trees, and the silence is often broken only by the bells of a flock of goats.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas I write-up.
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Abrigo de las Cañas I comes up about 122 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Lambert.
Cullera is not where most people would look for prehistory. It is a busy beach town at the mouth of the Júcar, with high-rise apartments along the sand, a lighthouse on the point and rice fields stretching inland toward the Albufera lagoon. But the town has a mountain at its back, a limestone outcrop crowned by a castle and a sanctuary, and in that rock there are shelters, including the one known as the Abric de Lambert.
Read the complete Abric de Lambert write-up.
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about 211 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Lambert. Next is back through Abrigo de las Cañas I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de las Cañas I, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la Vieja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Vieja write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de la Vieja. That is the ride.
Cueva de la Vieja → Abrigo de las Cañas I is 122 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañas I → Abric de Lambert is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Lambert → back through Abrigo de las Cañas I is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Cañas I → Cueva de la Vieja is 122 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.