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 Confrides it runs 348 km to Confrides; allow about 7 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, Abric de Gontrán, Olula and Abric del Sordo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Aitana range is the highest in the Alicante hinterland, a long limestone ridge rising to more than fifteen hundred metres above the Costa Blanca, and the village of Benimantell lies in a valley at its foot, with Castell de Castells and Sella tucked into the hills to the east. The Penyó de les Carrasques is a rocky outcrop in this country, and the shelter in it is part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998. The paintings are in the Levantine style, small red figures of hunters and animals, and they look out over a landscape of terraced valleys, quite unlike the high-rise beach towns twenty kilometres away.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I write-up.
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Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
Ibi is the toy capital of Spain, a fact that surprises everyone who rides through this mountain town in the hills of Alicante. Since the early twentieth century, workshops here have produced dolls, tin toys and plastic figures, and the Valencian Toy Museum tells the story. The rock shelter named Barranc de les Coves Abric I lies in the hills between Ibi and Alcoy, in a ravine whose name simply means the gully of the caves.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abric I write-up.
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Barranc de les Coves- Abric I comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Gontrán.
Head south-west from Xàtiva along the old road to Castile and you climb gently into a corridor between two mountain ranges, the Serra Grossa on one side and the Serra de Enguera on the other. The town of Moixent sits where the corridor narrows, with Vallada just downstream and the vineyards of Fontanars dels Alforins on the plateau beyond. The Abric de Gontran lies in the hills just outside Moixent.
Read the complete Abric de Gontrán write-up.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Gontrán. Next is Olula.
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, about halfway. Next is Abric del Sordo.
Ayora sits in a broad valley between two mountain ranges, in the interior of Valencia province, and the land around it has a high, golden look in summer, with fields of cereal, vines and almond trees under big skies. The town, with about 5,500 people, has a castle and a handsome palace of the Counts of Cervellón, and it feels like a gateway to a quieter Spain. To the south, the Cabriel river has cut a long canyon through the limestone, the Hoces del Cabriel, a protected area with clear water, poplars and cliffs, listed as a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Read the complete Abric del Sordo write-up.
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Abric del Sordo sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Olula.
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Read the complete Olula write-up.
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back through Olula comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric de Gontrán.
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Read the complete Abric de Gontrán write-up.
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about 259 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric de Gontrán. Next is back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de les Coves- Abric I write-up.
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back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I write-up.
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The route ends here after 348 km.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I → Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → Abric de Gontrán is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Gontrán → Olula is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olula → Abric del Sordo is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Sordo → back through Olula is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olula → back through Abric de Gontrán is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Gontrán → back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.