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 Alpera it runs 169 km to Alpera; allow about 5 h 13 of riding. It goes by way of Barranco del Cabezo del moro, Olula and back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro. 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.
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Cueva Negra del Bosque is where the day begins. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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Barranco del Cabezo del moro comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Olula.
Caudete and Almansa sit in a corridor of land where Castile-La Mancha, Valencia and Murcia meet, and for centuries this was frontier country, where kingdoms and armies passed and fought. Olula is a point in the hills near Caudete, linked on the rides with rock-art shelters in the surrounding sierras, part of the extensive UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in Mediterranean Spain.
Read the complete Olula write-up.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Olula. Next is back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro, 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 → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Olula is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olula → back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Cueva Negra del Bosque is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.