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 475 km round trip from Altea - roughly 10 h 58 in the saddle. The stops in between: Barranc de la magrana, Cova de la Petxina, Abric del Garrofero and Abric Pedro más. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
On a map of the Costa Blanca, the Serra de Bernia looks like a wall dropped between two very different worlds. On one side, high-rise Benidorm and the busy coast; on the other, the quiet valleys of Jalón and Guadalest. The Penya del Vicari is one of the rocky outcrops in these hills above Altea and Calp, a place where the limestone is cut by caves and shelters, some of which carry traces of prehistoric painting. It is a small, quiet site in an area otherwise famous for sun loungers.
Read the complete Penya del Vicari write-up.
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Penya del Vicari is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de la magrana.
Behind the holiday coast of Dénia and Xàbia, the mountains of the Marina Alta fold into steep, narrow valleys that have more in common with the Moorish past than with the beach towns. Vall d'Ebo, Adsubia and Villalonga are small places among the ridges, and the Barranc de la Magrana is one of the ravines cut into the limestone. The Moors, who farmed these terraces for centuries, were forced to leave Spain in 1609, and the expulsion of the Moriscos began in these valleys, where some of them rose in revolt against the order, retreating to the heights before being defeated. The old irrigation channels and terraces they built are still in use.
Read the complete Barranc de la magrana write-up.
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Barranc de la magrana comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de la Petxina.
Bellús is a small village in the valley of the Albaida river in southern Valencia, just upstream from where the river flows into a reservoir and then joins the Júcar. The old village was partly flooded by the reservoir, and the new one stands on higher ground. The Cova de la Petxina, the cave of the shell, is in the hills near the village, close to Guadasequies and Genovés.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de la Petxina. Next is Abric del Garrofero.
Bicorp is a small village in the Canal de Navarrés, a valley in the interior of Valencia province walled in by rugged mountains and deep ravines. The surrounding Macizo del Caroig is one of the largest wild areas in the Valencian Community, a vast tableland of pine, scrub and gorges cut by the Júcar's tributaries. The Abric del Garrofero, the shelter of the carob tree, lies in the hills near Bicorp, Quesa and Navarrés.
Read the complete Abric del Garrofero write-up.
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Abric del Garrofero, about halfway. 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 sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Garrofero.
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Read the complete Abric del Garrofero write-up.
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back through Abric del Garrofero comes up about 326 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cova de la Petxina.
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Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
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about 372 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cova de la Petxina. Next is back through Barranc de la magrana.
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Read the complete Barranc de la magrana write-up.
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back through Barranc de la magrana, late in the day. Next is Penya del Vicari.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penya del Vicari write-up.
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The route ends here after 475 km.
Penya del Vicari → Barranc de la magrana is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la magrana → Cova de la Petxina is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Petxina → Abric del Garrofero is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Garrofero → Abric Pedro más is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric Pedro más → back through Abric del Garrofero is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Garrofero → back through Cova de la Petxina is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova de la Petxina → back through Barranc de la magrana is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de la magrana → Penya del Vicari is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.