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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Confrides it runs 261 km to Confrides; allow about 4 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Abric de Gontrán, Cueva de la Vieja and back through Abric de Gontrán. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I is where the day begins. 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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Abric de Gontrán comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Vieja. Next is back through Abric de Gontrán.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de Gontrán write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abric de Gontrán, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I. That is the ride.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I → Abric de Gontrán is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Gontrán → Cueva de la Vieja is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Vieja → back through Abric de Gontrán is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de Gontrán → Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.