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 102 km to Vall de Gallinera; allow about 2 h 24 of riding. The stops in between: Barraac de la Palla, Penya Escrita and back through Barraac de la Palla. 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.
Read the complete Barranc de la magrana write-up.
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Barranc de la magrana is where the day begins. Next is Barraac de la Palla.
Tormos and Sagra are tiny villages at the foot of the mountains in the north of Alicante province, at the point where the plain of the Marina Alta meets the hills. They are surrounded by orange groves and orchards, with the mountains of the Vall de Laguar and the Serra del Migdia rising steeply behind. The Barranc de la Palla, the ravine of the straw, cuts into the hills near Tormos, close also to Orba and the town of Pego.
Read the complete Barraac de la Palla write-up.
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Barraac de la Palla comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Penya Escrita.
In the folded limestone hills behind the Costa Blanca, far enough inland that the resorts feel like another country, a rock shelter called Penya Escrita holds prehistoric paintings. The name means something like the written rock, which is what the people of Tàrbena and Bolulla called it long before archaeologists arrived. The figures belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO site made up of hundreds of shelters scattered from Catalonia down to Andalusia, painted by hunter-gatherers and early farmers thousands of years ago. They are small, faded and easy to miss, and they are best appreciated with patience rather than expectation.
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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Penya Escrita. Next is back through Barraac de la Palla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barraac de la Palla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barraac de la Palla, late in the day. Next is Barranc de la magrana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de la magrana write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranc de la magrana. That is the ride.
Barranc de la magrana → Barraac de la Palla is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barraac de la Palla → Penya Escrita is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya Escrita → back through Barraac de la Palla is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barraac de la Palla → Barranc de la magrana is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.