Why this ride
A 108 km round trip from Jalance - roughly 3 h 45 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric de los Gineses, Abrigo de Rosser and back through Abric de los Gineses.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Peñon de los machos and Abrigo de Rosser
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 108 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 45
- 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. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Peñon de los machos is where the day begins. Next is Abric de los Gineses.
2. Abric de los Gineses
Bicorp has about 650 inhabitants and a church, a main street, a bar or two and a long view across a valley of pine and carob trees, and that is the kind of place that makes an inland Valencia ride special. This is the so-called España vaciada, the emptied Spain, where villages have lost most of their young people over the last sixty years, and where the land has been returning to scrub and forest. The roads are quiet because the people are gone, and the effect on a rider is a gift: bend after bend with no traffic, the smell of rosemary and warm pine, and a sky as large as you will see in Europe.
Read the complete Abric de los Gineses write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abric de los Gineses comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Rosser.
3. Abrigo de Rosser
Near Bicorp, in the dry, folded hills of inland Valencia, one of the most famous images in prehistoric art was found in 1920: a figure clinging to ropes on a cliff, reaching into a hole surrounded by bees, a honey gatherer painted thousands of years ago in the Cuevas de la Araña. The Abrigo de Rosser lies in the same rugged area of the Canal de Navarrés and the Júcar gorges, one of many shelters with Levantine paintings in this region, and together they form part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. Bicorp has a small interpretation centre, and guided visits to some shelters can be arranged.
Read the complete Abrigo de Rosser write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Rosser. Next is back through Abric de los Gineses.
4. back through Abric de los Gineses
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de los Gineses write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Abric de los Gineses, late in the day. Next is Peñon de los machos.
5. Peñon de los machos
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Peñon de los machos. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Peñon de los machos to Abric de los Gineses
Peñon de los machos → Abric de los Gineses is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de los Gineses to Abrigo de Rosser
Abric de los Gineses → Abrigo de Rosser is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Rosser to back through Abric de los Gineses
Abrigo de Rosser → back through Abric de los Gineses is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de los Gineses to Peñon de los machos
back through Abric de los Gineses → Peñon de los machos is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.