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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356 km from Jalance to Jalance, about 8 h 56 of riding. On the way it passes Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca, Barranco del Cabezo del moro, Cueva de la Vieja and back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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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Peñon de los machos 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 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco del Cabezo del moro. Next is Cueva de la Vieja.
In 1910 a local man led researchers to a shallow shelter above the plain of Alpera in Albacete, and the paintings they found there became some of the best known examples of Levantine rock art in Spain. The Cueva de la Vieja shows archers with feathered headdresses, women in long skirts, deer and goats, all painted with a sense of movement that still feels immediate. The nearby Cueva del Queso holds more figures. Both are part of the UNESCO listing for the rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean, and guided visits run from the village, so check times with Alpera's tourist office.
Read the complete Cueva de la Vieja write-up.
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Cueva de la Vieja, about halfway. Next is back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
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Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro sits at 131 km, about halfway. 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.
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back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca comes up about 320 km into the recorded legs. Next is Peñon de los machos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peñon de los machos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Peñon de los machos closes the day.
Peñon de los machos → Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Cueva de la Vieja is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Vieja → back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Abric de Tollos I o de la fuente Seca is 102 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 → Peñon de los machos is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.