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 Bolulla it runs 489 km to Bolulla; allow about 10 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Barranc del Salt- Abric l, Abric de la Creu, Abric del Garrofero and Barranco del Cabezo del moro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the folded limestone hills behind the Costa Blanca, far enough inland that the resorts feel like another country, a rock shelter called Penya Escrita holds prehistoric paintings. The name means something like the written rock, which is what the people of Tàrbena and Bolulla called it long before archaeologists arrived. The figures belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO site made up of hundreds of shelters scattered from Catalonia down to Andalusia, painted by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago. They are small, faded and easy to miss, and they are best appreciated with patience rather than expectation.
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Penya Escrita is where the day begins. Next is Barranc del Salt- Abric l.
Benilloba is a tiny village in the Comtat, the mountainous district north of Alcoy in the province of Alicante, with fewer than a thousand people, a church and a cluster of stone houses among olive and almond groves. The Barranc del Salt, the waterfall ravine, cuts through the hills nearby, and its first shelter is one of the many painted sites in the region that are part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The Comtat and the neighbouring Alcoià are particularly rich in this heritage, with all three main styles of prehistoric painting represented: Levantine, schematic and the older Macro-schematic, unique to this small area, with large, enigmatic figures.
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Barranc del Salt- Abric l comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la Creu.
Ontinyent and Bocairent sit close together in the southern part of Valencia province, in the upper valley of the Clariano river, surrounded by the mountains of the Serra de Mariola and the Serra Grossa. Ontinyent is a textile town with a fine old quarter on a hill above the river, crowned by the tall bell tower of the church of Santa Maria. Bocairent, a few kilometres away, is a medieval village perched on a rocky outcrop above a ravine. The Abric de la Creu, the shelter of the cross, lies in the hills between the two.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Creu. 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.
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Abric del Garrofero, about halfway. 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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Barranco del Cabezo del moro sits at 152 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 335 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric de la Creu.
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Read the complete Abric de la Creu write-up.
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about 391 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric de la Creu. Next is back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l.
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back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l, late in the day. Next is Penya Escrita.
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Read the complete Penya Escrita write-up.
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The route ends here after 489 km.
Penya Escrita → Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc del Salt- Abric l → Abric de la Creu is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Creu → Abric del Garrofero is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Garrofero → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Abric del Garrofero is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Garrofero → back through Abric de la Creu is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Creu → back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l → Penya Escrita is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.