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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From Caudete it runs 268 km to Caudete; allow about 6 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: Abric Pedro más, Peñon de los machos, Abrigo del mal Paso and back through Peñon de los machos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Caudete and Almansa sit in a corridor of land where Castile-La Mancha, Valencia and Murcia meet, and for centuries this was frontier country, where kingdoms and armies passed and fought. Olula is a point in the hills near Caudete, linked on the rides with rock-art shelters in the surrounding sierras, part of the extensive UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in Mediterranean Spain.
Read the complete Olula write-up.
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Olula is where the day begins. Next is Abric Pedro más.
Almansa announces itself from far away: a castle perched on a limestone crag right in the middle of the town, its walls and towers silhouetted against the sky. The town sits at the eastern edge of La Mancha, where the high plateau meets the mountains of Valencia, and it was here, in April 1707, that one of the decisive battles of the War of the Spanish Succession was fought, when the Bourbon army defeated an allied force and secured the throne of Spain for Philip V. A monument on the battlefield and a museum in town tell the story. In the hills to the north, near Alpera, the Abric Pedro Mas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Cueva de la Vieja is one of the best-known Levantine sites, with archers, deer and goats.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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Abric Pedro más comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Peñon de los machos. Next is Abrigo del mal Paso.
The Júcar is the river behind this stop, though you cannot see it from the shelter. Millares is a village of about five hundred people in the broken hill country of inland Valencia, not far from where the great river runs out of the mountains and into the reservoir at Tous. The country around is a labyrinth of gorges, ravines and small plateaux, cut by the Júcar and its tributaries, with pine woods on the slopes and bare limestone on the tops.
Read the complete Abrigo del mal Paso write-up.
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Abrigo del mal Paso, about halfway. Next is back through Peñon de los machos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
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back through Peñon de los machos sits at 130 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric Pedro más.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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back through Abric Pedro más comes up about 234 km into the recorded legs. Next is Olula.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Olula write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Olula closes the day.
Olula → Abric Pedro más is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric Pedro más → Peñon de los machos is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peñon de los machos → Abrigo del mal Paso is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mal Paso → back through Peñon de los machos is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peñon de los machos → back through Abric Pedro más is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric Pedro más → Olula is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.