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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Millares it runs 504 km to Millares; allow about 8 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Abric del Sordo, Abrigo del Buen Aire I and back through Abric del Sordo. 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.
Inland Valencia is a world away from the beaches on the coast. Behind the orange groves and the motorway the land rises into dry, folded mountains cut by deep gorges, where villages of a few hundred people cling to the hillsides and the pines smell of resin in the heat. Millares and Dos Aguas lie in this country, near the Júcar and Cabriel rivers, and the Cueva del Cerro is a rock shelter in the limestone, one of the many places in eastern Spain where prehistoric people left paintings on the walls.
Read the complete Cueva del Cerro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva del Cerro is where the day begins. Next is Abric del Sordo.
Ayora sits in a broad valley between two mountain ranges, in the interior of Valencia province, and the land around it has a high, golden look in summer, with fields of cereal, vines and almond trees under big skies. The town, with about 5,500 people, has a castle and a handsome palace of the Counts of Cervellón, and it feels like a gateway to a quieter Spain. To the south, the Cabriel river has cut a long canyon through the limestone, the Hoces del Cabriel, a protected area with clear water, poplars and cliffs, listed as a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Read the complete Abric del Sordo write-up.
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Abric del Sordo comes up about 99 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Buen Aire I.
Jumilla country is dry, wide and honest. The town sits in the far north of Murcia where it bulges up towards Albacete, surrounded by limestone sierras, almond groves and vineyards of Monastrell grapes that make some of the most powerful red wine in Spain. A few kilometres outside town, in the folds of these hills, lie a group of small rock shelters known as the Abrigos del Buen Aire. They belong to the long chain of prehistoric painted sites strung along the eastern side of the peninsula that UNESCO lists together as the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Abrigo del Buen Aire I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 252 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Buen Aire I. Next is back through Abric del Sordo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric del Sordo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric del Sordo, late in the day. Next is Cueva del Cerro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Cerro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva del Cerro. That is the ride.
Cueva del Cerro → Abric del Sordo is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Sordo → Abrigo del Buen Aire I is 153 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo del Buen Aire I → back through Abric del Sordo is 151 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abric del Sordo → Cueva del Cerro is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.