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 313 km round trip from Caudete - roughly 5 h 45 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca, Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I and back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I.
The Vall d'Albaida is the quiet valley south of Xàtiva where the Valencian hinterland starts to climb towards the mountains of Alicante, and Otos, Ráfol de Salem and Bèlgida are tiny villages scattered among its folds. The Barranc de Carbonera is one of the ravines that cut into the limestone slopes, and the shelter in it is part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art group that UNESCO inscribed in 1998. The Peñón de los Machos, another painted rock nearby, is on the same ride. The paintings belong to the Levantine tradition, red figures of people and animals painted on the walls of small overhangs in the cliffs.
Read the complete Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 158 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I. Next is back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca, late in the day. 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.
Back at Olula. That is the ride.
Olula → Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de Carbonera- Abric I → back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → Olula is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.