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 402 km round trip from Alcoy - roughly 6 h 56 in the saddle. The stops in between: Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l, Barraac de la Palla, Abric de Lambert and La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barraac de la Palla.
Tormos and Sagra are tiny villages at the foot of the mountains in the north of Alicante province, at the point where the plain of the Marina Alta meets the hills. They are surrounded by orange groves and orchards, with the mountains of the Vall de Laguar and the Serra del Migdia rising steeply behind. The Barranc de la Palla, the ravine of the straw, cuts into the hills near Tormos, close also to Orba and the town of Pego.
Read the complete Barraac de la Palla write-up.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Barraac de la Palla. Next is Abric de Lambert.
Cullera is not where most people would look for prehistory. It is a busy beach town at the mouth of the Júcar, with high-rise apartments along the sand, a lighthouse on the point and rice fields stretching inland toward the Albufera lagoon. But the town has a mountain at its back, a limestone outcrop crowned by a castle and a sanctuary, and in that rock there are shelters, including the one known as the Abric de Lambert.
Read the complete Abric de Lambert write-up.
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Abric de Lambert, about halfway. Next is 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.
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La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia sits at 175 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric de Lambert.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Lambert write-up.
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back through Abric de Lambert comes up about 247 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Barraac de la Palla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barraac de la Palla write-up.
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about 314 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Barraac de la Palla. 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.
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back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l, late in the day. Next is La Sarga- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Sarga- Abric I write-up.
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The route ends here after 402 km.
La Sarga- Abric I → Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l → Barraac de la Palla is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barraac de la Palla → Abric de Lambert is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Lambert → La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia → back through Abric de Lambert is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Lambert → back through Barraac de la Palla is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barraac de la Palla → back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abrigo l → La Sarga- Abric I is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.