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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A 108 km round trip from Pego - roughly 2 h 46 in the saddle. On the way it passes Coves Roges Abric II-III, Barranc del Salt- Abric l and back through Coves Roges Abric II-III. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Local walkers call it the cathedral of hiking, and once you have seen the Barranc de l'Infern you understand why. This deep limestone gorge, between the Vall de Laguar and the Vall d'Ebo in the mountains behind Dénia, is crossed by an old Moorish mule path that descends and climbs again by thousands of stone steps, carved and built into the rock walls over centuries. The route, a classic day walk, is spectacular and exhausting, with the gorge narrowing at its deepest point to a passage between towering walls. The gorge also holds prehistoric rock art in its shelters, and the sites grouped as Conjunt 2 are among them, part of the wider family of Mediterranean rock art protected by UNESCO.
Read the complete Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 write-up.
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Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 is where the day begins. Next is Coves Roges Abric II-III.
Behind the Costa Blanca, between the beaches and the hills, lies a country of steep limestone valleys, almond terraces and tiny villages that few tourists reach. Coves Roges, the Red Caves, are shelters in the rock near Castell de Castells and Tàrbena, in the Marina Alta, where the Serra d'Aitana rises to over fifteen hundred metres and the Guadalest valley cuts deep into the mountains. Rock shelters here were painted and used in prehistory, and this part of Alicante has some of the best-known Levantine art, such as the shelters at Pla de Petracos not far away.
Read the complete Coves Roges Abric II-III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Coves Roges Abric II-III comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc del Salt- Abric l.
Benilloba is a tiny village in the Comtat, the mountainous district north of Alcoy in the province of Alicante, with fewer than a thousand people, a church and a cluster of stone houses among olive and almond groves. The Barranc del Salt, the waterfall ravine, cuts through the hills nearby, and its first shelter is one of the many painted sites in the region that are part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The Comtat and the neighbouring Alcoià are particularly rich in this heritage, with all three main styles of prehistoric painting represented: Levantine, schematic and the older Macro-schematic, unique to this small area, with large, enigmatic figures.
Read the complete Barranc del Salt- Abric l write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc del Salt- Abric l. Next is back through Coves Roges Abric II-III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coves Roges Abric II-III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Coves Roges Abric II-III, late in the day. Next is Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2, 17 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2. That is the ride.
Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 → Coves Roges Abric II-III is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coves Roges Abric II-III → Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc del Salt- Abric l → back through Coves Roges Abric II-III is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coves Roges Abric II-III → Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.