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 199 km round trip from Benimassot - roughly 3 h 36 in the saddle. The stops in between: La Sarga- Abric I, Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I, Cova de la Petxina and back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Serra de Mariola is a mountain of herbs. Its slopes smell of thyme, rosemary, sage and a score of other aromatic plants that people have gathered for centuries to make teas, liqueurs and remedies, and the natural park that protects it has become a favourite of walkers who like to crush a leaf between their fingers. L'Esmoladora lies a little way east of that range, in the hills between Planes and Beniarrés, a country of terraced slopes and small reservoirs that spreads out towards the plain of Alcoi.
Read the complete L'Esmoladora write-up.
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L'Esmoladora is where the day begins. 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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La Sarga- Abric I comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I.
The painted shelter of Barranc d'Alpadull sits in the folds of the Serra de Mariola, the limestone massif that rises between Bocairent, Alfafara and Agres in the inland corner where Valencia, Alicante and the old kingdom's hill country all meet. It is one of the many small overhangs in eastern Spain that carry Levantine rock art, the group of sites inscribed together by UNESCO as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. Do not expect a museum. These are faint, reddish figures under a lip of stone, usually fenced, often hard to read unless the light is low and raking, and part of the pleasure is simply knowing that hunters drew here thousands of years before anyone thought of building a road up this valley.
Read the complete Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I. Next is Cova de la Petxina.
Bellús is a small village in the valley of the Albaida river in southern Valencia, just upstream from where the river flows into a reservoir and then joins the Júcar. The old village was partly flooded by the reservoir, and the new one stands on higher ground. The Cova de la Petxina, the cave of the shell, is in the hills near the village, close to Guadasequies and Genovés.
Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
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Cova de la Petxina, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I sits at 107 km, about halfway. 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.
back through La Sarga- Abric I comes up about 169 km into the recorded legs. Next is L'Esmoladora.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete L'Esmoladora write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
L'Esmoladora closes the day.
L'Esmoladora → La Sarga- Abric I is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Sarga- Abric I → Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I → Cova de la Petxina is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Petxina → back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric I → back through La Sarga- Abric I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Sarga- Abric I → L'Esmoladora is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.