CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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429 km from Villar del Humo to Villar del Humo, about 9 h 30 of riding. It goes by way of La Hoz de Vicente, Peñon de los machos, Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca and back through Peñon de los machos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Villar del Humo is a tiny village in the Serranía of Cuenca, the high, forested mountain country east of the city of Cuenca. Around it, sandstone outcrops rise from pine forests, and on their faces prehistoric painters left images of animals and people. The Peña del Escrito and La Peña del Castellar are among the most important shelters here, and they are part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings include deer, horses and human figures, some in the dynamic Levantine style and others more schematic.
Read the complete La Peña del Castellar write-up.
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La Peña del Castellar is where the day begins. Next is La Hoz de Vicente.
The Cabriel is one of the few rivers in Spain that still runs clean and fast through a deep canyon, and the Hoz de Vicente stands on its upper stretch, where Cuenca meets Valencia. The Hoces del Cabriel are a natural park of limestone gorges, pine woods and river flats, with kingfishers, otters and, on the rock faces, griffon vultures. The Hoz de Vicente shelter is one of the painted places of this wild corner, a Levantine rock art site listed within the UNESCO group of the Mediterranean Basin.
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La Hoz de Vicente comes up 52 km in. Next is Peñon de los machos.
Cofrentes is a village at the confluence of two rivers, the Júcar and the Cabriel, in the interior of Valencia province, and it has a curious mix of attractions. Above it stands a castle on a crag. Nearby rises the Cerro de Agrás, the only recently active volcano in the Valencian Community, a dark cone of basalt in a landscape of limestone. And just outside the village, the cooling towers of the Cofrentes nuclear power station send plumes of steam into the sky. The Peñón de los Machos, a rocky outcrop with painted shelters, lies in the hills between Cofrentes, Jalance and Jarafuel.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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105 km in you reach Peñon de los machos. Next is Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca.
This is the country of the honey-gatherer. Not far from here, in a cave near Bicorp, one of the best-known Levantine paintings shows a tiny figure climbing a rope ladder to a wild bees' nest high in a cliff, with bees swarming around him. It is thousands of years old, and it is a reminder that the artists who painted these shelters were also men and women who took honey from the rock, followed deer through the scrub and watched the weather. The Abric de Tollos belongs to the same family of shelters in the hills of inland Valencia, part of the Levantine rock art listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca write-up.
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Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca, about halfway. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
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Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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back through Peñon de los machos sits at 209 km, about halfway. Next is back through La Hoz de Vicente.
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Read the complete La Hoz de Vicente write-up.
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back through La Hoz de Vicente comes up 262 km in. Next is La Peña del Castellar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Peña del Castellar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
La Peña del Castellar closes the day.
La Peña del Castellar → La Hoz de Vicente is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Hoz de Vicente → Peñon de los machos is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Peñon de los machos → Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → back through Peñon de los machos is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → back through La Hoz de Vicente is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through La Hoz de Vicente → La Peña del Castellar is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.