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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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A 350 km round trip from Villajoyosa - roughly 6 h 02 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi, La Sarga- Abric I, Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l and Abric de la Penya. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Behind the beaches and high-rises of the Costa Blanca, a few kilometres inland from Alicante and El Campello, the land rises quickly into dry limestone hills, scrub and almond terraces. This is the beginning of the Betic ranges, and the area is cut by ravines, barrancos, which carry water only after heavy storms and have carved gorges in the soft rock. Garganta de la Hoz is the name of such a gorge, a narrow cut in the hills, and the I suggests that more than one point on the ride lies along it.
Read the complete Garganta de la Hoz I write-up.
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Garganta de la Hoz I is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi.
The Carabassí is one of the last stretches of wild-ish coast between Alicante and Santa Pola: a line of dunes held together by pine and marram grass, a long beach, and the sea glittering under the flight path of Alicante airport. In the low rocky ground behind it lies a small cave known for painted marks, the Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassí, close to the village of El Altet and a short hop from Santa Pola.
Read the complete Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi write-up.
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Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Sarga- Abric I.
Alcoy, or Alcoi in Valencian, is a city of bridges, built where three rivers meet in deep ravines, in the mountains of northern Alicante. It was one of the cradles of Spain's industrial revolution, with textile and paper mills powered by its rivers, and its streets have fine modernist buildings from that era. It is also famous for its Moors and Christians festival in April, one of the most spectacular in Spain, with parades, music and mock battles in honour of Saint George. The rock shelters of La Sarga lie in the hills about eight kilometres from the city, toward Ibi.
Read the complete La Sarga- Abric I write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach La Sarga- Abric I. Next is Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l.
Castelló de Rugat sits on the southern rim of the Vall d'Albaida, a broad valley in the south of Valencia province hemmed in by mountain ridges. On one side rises the long saw-toothed crest of the Benicadell, on the other the Serra de la Solana, and between them lies a patchwork of vineyards, olive groves and small towns with church towers. The Barranc de les Coves, the ravine of the caves, cuts into the slopes near Castelló de Rugat, Ràfol de Salem and Beniarrés, and its first shelter holds painted figures.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l write-up.
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Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l, about halfway. Next is Abric de la Penya.
Moixent, or Mogente in Castilian, stands at the head of a corridor that has carried traffic between the Valencian coast and the interior of Castile for as long as anyone has been moving goods. The old road, the railway and now the motorway all funnel through here, between low limestone ridges with vineyards and olive groves in the valley floor. The rock shelter known as the Abric de la Penya sits in this landscape a few kilometres from the town, close also to Vallada.
Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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Abric de la Penya sits at 175 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l comes up about 216 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through La Sarga- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Sarga- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 250 km into the recorded legs you reach back through La Sarga- Abric I. Next is back through Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi, late in the day. Next is Garganta de la Hoz I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Garganta de la Hoz I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 350 km.
Garganta de la Hoz I → Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi → La Sarga- Abric I is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Sarga- Abric I → Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l → Abric de la Penya is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l → back through La Sarga- Abric I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Sarga- Abric I → back through Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de las Arañas del Carabassi → Garganta de la Hoz I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.