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 122 km round trip from Vall de Gallinera - roughly 2 h 22 in the saddle. The stops in between: Coves de la Vila, Port de Confrides- Abric I and back through Coves de la Vila. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Cherry trees are the secret of this valley, and for a few days in late winter and spring they turn the slopes white. The Vall de Gallinera, which lies just north of the Vall d'Ebo, is a long, narrow valley of small villages, with Adsubia among them, filled with terraced fields that the Moors once irrigated with great skill. Its cherries are among the best in the region, and the blossom draws visitors who come to walk the terraces and take photographs.
Read the complete Barranc de la Cova Negra write-up.
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Barranc de la Cova Negra is where the day begins. Next is Coves de la Vila.
Planes sits in a cleft of the green hills above the Serpis river, in the Comtat, and the village of Beniarrés a few kilometres away is known for its reservoir, which fills the valley floor with a long, quiet sheet of water. The Coves de la Vila are a set of rock shelters in the cliffs above the village, and they belong to the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. The paintings are in the Levantine style, red figures of hunters, goats and deer, and the shelters look out over the valley, giving you the same view as the people who painted them.
Read the complete Coves de la Vila write-up.
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Coves de la Vila comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Port de Confrides- Abric I.
Inland from Benidorm, barely half an hour from the high-rise towers and the beach crowds, the mountains of Alicante rise steeply and the whole mood changes. The Port de Confrides is the saddle on the CV-70 between the Guadalest valley and the upland basin of Confrides and Benasau, with the long limestone wall of the Sierra de Aitana to the south. Aitana, at 1,558 metres, is the highest peak in the province, and on a clear winter morning you can see the sea glittering behind you as you climb.
Read the complete Port de Confrides- Abric I write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Port de Confrides- Abric I. Next is back through Coves de la Vila.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coves de la Vila write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Coves de la Vila, late in the day. Next is Barranc de la Cova Negra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de la Cova Negra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranc de la Cova Negra. That is the ride.
Barranc de la Cova Negra → Coves de la Vila is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coves de la Vila → Port de Confrides- Abric I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port de Confrides- Abric I → back through Coves de la Vila is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coves de la Vila → Barranc de la Cova Negra is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.