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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From El Campello it runs 244 km to El Campello; allow about 4 h 12 of riding. On the way it passes Penya roja o Ulls de Canals, Abric del Voro and back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Behind Alicante and its beaches rises a line of bare, grey mountains, and the Cabeçó d'Or is the tallest of them, a ridge of about twelve hundred metres that shows its pale cliffs from the city. The Barranco de la Cueva runs through its foothills, inland from El Campello, in country of dry gullies, pine woods and abandoned almond terraces. It is a wild place for a spot so close to a city of three hundred thousand people.
Read the complete Barranco de la Cueva I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barranco de la Cueva I is where the day begins. Next is Penya roja o Ulls de Canals.
This is the country of toys and herbs, an unusual pairing. Onil and Ibi, in the inland hills of Alicante, grew up as centres of toy-making, starting with tin and later plastic, and the local museum in Ibi tells how a mountain valley became a world supplier of dolls and games. On the other side, the Sierra de Mariola, a natural park rich in aromatic plants, supplies the herbs for a local liqueur and for traditional remedies. Bocairent, a handsome old town on a rocky spur, has houses built right at the edge of a gorge and a set of man-made caves carved into the cliff, the Covetes dels Moros.
Read the complete Penya roja o Ulls de Canals write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Penya roja o Ulls de Canals comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del Voro.
The Canal de Navarrés is a wide valley in the interior of Valencia province, surrounded by limestone mountains and deep gorges, and the Abric del Voro lies in the hills between Quesa and Bicorp, two small villages in the heart of some of the wildest country in the region. It is one of the many rock shelters with prehistoric paintings in the area, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art. The valley's most famous site is close by: the Cuevas de la Araña near Bicorp, where a painting of a figure climbing ropes to collect honey from a wild bees' nest, surrounded by bees, is one of the best-known images of prehistoric art in Spain, often cited as one of the earliest depictions of honey gathering.
Read the complete Abric del Voro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del Voro. Next is back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penya roja o Ulls de Canals write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals, late in the day. Next is Barranco de la Cueva I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco de la Cueva I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barranco de la Cueva I. That is the ride.
Barranco de la Cueva I → Penya roja o Ulls de Canals is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya roja o Ulls de Canals → Abric del Voro is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Voro → back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals → Barranco de la Cueva I is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.