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 Vall de Gallinera it runs 110 km to Vall de Gallinera; allow about 2 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, Pinós and back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Vall de Gallinera is one of those valleys that seems to exist slightly outside time. Running east to west in the mountains of northern Alicante, it holds eight tiny villages strung along a single road, terraced slopes of cherry trees, and above them limestone ridges cut by steep ravines. The Barranc de Beniali is one of those ravines, and in a shelter on its walls prehistoric people painted figures that are now part of the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art. The valley next door, the Vall d'Ebo, is just as wild, and its Cova del Rull is a show cave full of stalactites.
Read the complete Barranc de Beniali- Abric l write-up.
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Barranc de Beniali- Abric l is where the day begins. Next is Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
Somewhere up in these limestone folds, thousands of years ago, someone painted little figures on the rock that are still there. The Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is one of many painted shelters in the Marina Alta, the north-eastern corner of the province of Alicante, which form part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The shelters hold Levantine, Schematic and older Macroschematic paintings, showing hunters, animals and abstract shapes, and many are protected by fences and only visitable with a guide. The valleys around Murla, Orba and Tormos are full of them.
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Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pinós.
Inland from the busy coast of the Marina Alta, behind Benissa and Calp, the land folds into a series of steep, terraced valleys where almond and olive trees cling to dry-stone walls and white farmhouses sit among the pines. Pinós is a rural area in the hills near Benissa, Senija and Jalón, and the rides link it to the rock-art shelters of the barrancs, the ravines that cut through the limestone of this region, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art. The exact contents of the nearby shelters are for specialists, but the landscape itself has a quiet, timeless beauty, especially in the soft light of late afternoon.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Pinós. Next is back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, late in the day. Next is Barranc de Beniali- Abric l.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de Beniali- Abric l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranc de Beniali- Abric l. That is the ride.
Barranc de Beniali- Abric l → Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Pinós is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pinós → back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Barranc de Beniali- Abric l is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.