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 Castell de Castells it runs 459 km to Castell de Castells; allow about 10 h 33 of riding. The stops in between: Barranc de mastec, Abric de la Penya, Abric del Voro and Barranco del Cabezo del moro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Racó de Sorellets is tucked between Castell de Castells and Vall d'Ebo, and to reach it you cross some of the most rugged ground in northern Alicante. This is the country of the Serrella and its neighbours, a jumble of ridges and ravines that the sea breeze hardly reaches, where goats still graze and the villages cling to the sides of the valley. Pego sits ten kilometres away on the plain, and the gap in character between the two is startling.
Read the complete Racó de Sorellets- Abric I write-up.
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Racó de Sorellets- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de mastec.
Between Cocentaina and Alcoy, in the hilly interior of Alicante province, a small ravine called the Barranc de Mastec holds rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. This corner of Spain is particularly rich in it, with styles ranging from the naturalistic Levantine figures of hunters and animals to the strange, abstract macro-schematic art that seems unique to these valleys. The ravine is surrounded by terraced olive and almond groves, pine woods and limestone crags.
Read the complete Barranc de mastec write-up.
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Barranc de mastec comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de la Penya.
Moixent, or Mogente in Castilian, stands at the head of a corridor that has carried traffic between the Valencian coast and the interior of Castile for as long as anyone has been moving goods. The old road, the railway and now the motorway all funnel through here, between low limestone ridges with vineyards and olive groves in the valley floor. The rock shelter known as the Abric de la Penya sits in this landscape a few kilometres from the town, close also to Vallada.
Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de la Penya. Next is Abric del Voro.
The Canal de Navarrés is a wide valley in the interior of Valencia province, surrounded by limestone mountains and deep gorges, and the Abric del Voro lies in the hills between Quesa and Bicorp, two small villages in the heart of some of the wildest country in the region. It is one of the many rock shelters with prehistoric paintings in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The valley's most famous site is close by: the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, where a painting of a figure climbing ropes to collect honey from a wild bees' nest, surrounded by bees, is one of the best-known images of prehistoric art in Spain, often cited as one of the earliest depictions of honey gathering.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
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Abric del Voro, 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.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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Barranco del Cabezo del moro sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abric del Voro.
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Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
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back through Abric del Voro comes up about 322 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abric de la Penya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Penya write-up.
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about 373 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abric de la Penya. Next is back through Barranc de mastec.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de mastec write-up.
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back through Barranc de mastec, late in the day. Next is Racó de Sorellets- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó de Sorellets- Abric I write-up.
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The route ends here after 459 km.
Racó de Sorellets- Abric I → Barranc de mastec is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de mastec → Abric de la Penya is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de la Penya → Abric del Voro is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Voro → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → back through Abric del Voro is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric del Voro → back through Abric de la Penya is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric de la Penya → back through Barranc de mastec is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de mastec → Racó de Sorellets- Abric I is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.