Why this ride
A 358 km round trip from Valencia - roughly 7 h 57 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo de las Cañas II, Abric de la monja and back through Abrigo de las Cañas II. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia and Abric de la monja
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 358 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 7 h 57
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
In the heart of Valencia's old town, a Gothic building with crenellated walls and gargoyles looks more like a castle than a market, and that was rather the point. The Lonja de la Seda, the silk exchange, was built in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries when Valencia was one of the richest cities in the Mediterranean, and it was meant to show the power of its merchants. Its great hall, the Sala de Contratación, is one of the masterpieces of late Gothic architecture, with slender columns that twist like palm trunks up to a ribbed vault. It was listed by UNESCO in 1996.
Read the complete La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de las Cañas II.
2. Abrigo de las Cañas II
The Macizo del Caroig is one of the emptiest corners of the Valencian region, a high, rugged limestone massif cut by deep gorges, covered with pine, scrub and rosemary, and dotted with a few small villages. Bicorp, Millares and Quesa lie on its edges, and in the ravines around them are dozens of rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Abrigo de las Cañas is one of them, and the area as a whole is among the richest in Spain for this kind of art.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas II write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abrigo de las Cañas II comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la monja.
3. Abric de la monja
Ontinyent sits in the Vall d'Albaida, in the south of Valencia, a town of about thirty-eight thousand people with a long textile tradition that goes back to wool, blankets and, more recently, home textiles. The Clariano river runs through it, and the hills around are wrinkled limestone, covered in pine, holm oak and wild herbs. In the shelter of those hills, small rock overhangs, called abrics here, carry paintings made by prehistoric people, and the Abric de la Monja is one of them, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Abric de la monja write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 180 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la monja. Next is back through Abrigo de las Cañas II.
4. back through Abrigo de las Cañas II
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañas II write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Abrigo de las Cañas II, late in the day. Next is La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia.
5. La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia to Abrigo de las Cañas II
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → Abrigo de las Cañas II is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañas II to Abric de la monja
Abrigo de las Cañas II → Abric de la monja is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la monja to back through Abrigo de las Cañas II
Abric de la monja → back through Abrigo de las Cañas II is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Cañas II to La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
back through Abrigo de las Cañas II → La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.