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 Alcalalí it runs 497 km to Alcalalí; allow about 11 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Morro Carrascal, El Pantanet, Abric del Garrofero and Barranco del Cabezo del moro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Vall de Pop, or Jalón valley as many foreign residents call it, is a sheltered valley in the north of Alicante province, a few kilometres inland from the coast at Dénia and Xàbia. It is a landscape of vineyards, almond and olive groves and orange trees, with white villages and the mountains rising on all sides. Alcalalí is one of these villages, with a medieval tower in its centre, and Parcent and Orba are nearby. The Abric de Seguilí lies in the hills just outside Alcalalí.
Read the complete Abric de Seguili write-up.
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Abric de Seguilí is where the day begins. Next is Morro Carrascal.
Inland from Benidorm, barely half an hour from the tower blocks and beaches, the mountains of the Alicante interior rise steep and empty. Morro Carrascal is a rocky height in this country, near the villages of Benilloba, Sella and Benimantell, where the sierras of Aitana, Serrella and Mariola come together. Shelters in these mountains hold prehistoric paintings in both the Levantine and the older Macroschematic styles, and they belong to the World Heritage listing of Iberian rock art.
Read the complete Morro Carrascal write-up.
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Morro Carrascal comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Pantanet.
Few riders have heard of the Serra de Mariola, and that is a pity, because this little limestone range between Alcoi, Bocairent and Ontinyent is one of the most rewarding corners of inland Valencia. El Pantanet, near the village of Alfafara, is a small rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the many sites in the UNESCO listing of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. As with most of its sisters, it is protected and access may be limited, but the hills around it reward the trip on their own.
Read the complete El Pantanet write-up.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach El Pantanet. 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 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 155 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 339 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through El Pantanet.
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Read the complete El Pantanet write-up.
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about 403 km into the recorded legs you reach back through El Pantanet. Next is back through Morro Carrascal.
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Read the complete Morro Carrascal write-up.
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back through Morro Carrascal, late in the day. Next is Abric de Seguili.
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Read the complete Abric de Seguili write-up.
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The route ends here after 497 km.
Abric de Seguilí → Morro Carrascal is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Morro Carrascal → El Pantanet is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Pantanet → Abric del Garrofero is 61 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 El Pantanet is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Pantanet → back through Morro Carrascal is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Morro Carrascal → Abric de Seguili is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.