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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254 km from Vall de Gallinera to Vall de Gallinera, about 4 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Barranc de Bolulla, Barranc del Salt- Abric l, Barranc de les Coves- Abric I and back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Behind the holiday coast of Dénia and Xàbia, the mountains of the Marina Alta fold into steep, narrow valleys that have more in common with the Moorish past than with the beach towns. Vall d'Ebo, Adsubia and Villalonga are small places among the ridges, and the Barranc de la Magrana is one of the ravines cut into the limestone. The Moors, who farmed these terraces for centuries, were forced to leave Spain in 1609, and the expulsion of the Moriscos began in these valleys, where some of them rose in revolt against the order, retreating to the heights before being defeated. The old irrigation channels and terraces they built are still in use.
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Barranc de la magrana is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de Bolulla.
Bolulla is barely a village, a few hundred people tucked into a valley of the Marina Baixa behind Benidorm, and the ravine that carries its name cuts into the limestone hills just outside it. The mountains here are steep and close together, terraced for centuries with olives, almonds and loquats, and their caves and shelters hold traces of prehistoric painting that place this corner of Alicante within the wider family of Mediterranean rock art. What you see on the ground is a dry, rocky gully scented with pine and wild herbs, with the ruined castle of Bolulla perched on a ridge above, a reminder of the Moorish centuries when these valleys were densely settled.
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Barranc de Bolulla comes up about 51 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.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranc del Salt- Abric l. Next is Barranc de les Coves- Abric I.
Ibi is the toy capital of Spain, a fact that surprises everyone who rides through this mountain town in the hills of Alicante. Since the early twentieth century, workshops here have produced dolls, tin toys and plastic figures, and the Valencian Toy Museum tells the story. The rock shelter named Barranc de les Coves Abric I lies in the hills between Ibi and Alcoy, in a ravine whose name simply means the gully of the caves.
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Barranc de les Coves- Abric I, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l.
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back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de Bolulla.
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Read the complete Barranc de Bolulla write-up.
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back through Barranc de Bolulla comes up about 202 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranc de la magrana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de la magrana write-up.
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Barranc de la magrana closes the day.
Barranc de la magrana → Barranc de Bolulla is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de Bolulla → Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc del Salt- Abric l → Barranc de les Coves- Abric I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de les Coves- Abric I → back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc del Salt- Abric l → back through Barranc de Bolulla is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de Bolulla → Barranc de la magrana is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.