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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A 434 km round trip from Alpera - roughly 7 h 53 in the saddle. The stops in between: 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.
The Cueva Negra del Bosque lies about five and a half kilometres from Alpera, on the high plateau where La Mancha begins to fold into the hills of Valencia, and it is one of the painted shelters of the district. It carries rock art in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and the ride links it with the Abric de Lambert, a site far to the east. Alpera is the best known name of the area, because of the Cueva de la Vieja, but there are other shelters scattered in the limestone gullies.
Read the complete Cueva Negra del Bosque write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva Negra del Bosque 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 128 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 217 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 Negra del Bosque.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva Negra del Bosque write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva Negra del Bosque. That is the ride.
Cueva Negra del Bosque → Abrigo de las Cañas I is 128 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 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Cañas I → Cueva Negra del Bosque is 129 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.