Why this ride
From Es Migjorn Gran it runs 190 km to Es Migjorn Gran; allow about 4 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: C2: Southwest Area, C9: North-West area of Tramuntana and back through C2: Southwest Area. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
C4: Central-south area of ravines and C9: North-West area of Tramuntana
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 190 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 14
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. C4: Central-south area of ravines
Menorca is the quiet island of the Balearics, and its south coast is cut by ravines, the barrancs, that run down from the limestone plateau to the sea in narrow, green clefts. The central-south area is where they are most impressive: Algendar, Trebalúger, Binigaus and others, each a steep-sided channel with wild olive, holm oak and a trickle of water in the bottom, ending in a small beach. The whole island was declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993, and the old walking path that circles it, the Camí de Cavalls, passes by the mouths of most of them.
Read the complete C4: Central-south area of ravines write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
C4: Central-south area of ravines is where the day begins. Next is C2: Southwest Area.
2. C2: Southwest Area
Ciutadella is the old capital of Menorca, a handsome town of nearly thirty thousand people at the western end of the island, with a small harbour lined with fish restaurants and a cathedral built on the site of a mosque. The south-west corner of the island, below the town, holds some of the finest prehistoric remains on Menorca, including the burial chamber known as the Naveta des Tudons, a stone structure shaped like an upturned boat that is among the oldest roofed buildings in Europe. It belongs to the talayotic culture that built towers and T-shaped sanctuaries across the island over many centuries.
Read the complete C2: Southwest Area write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
C2: Southwest Area comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is C9: North-West area of Tramuntana.
3. C9: North-West area of Tramuntana
Menorca is the quieter of the Balearic islands, and its prehistoric heritage is the reason it appears on the UNESCO list as Talayotic Menorca, inscribed in 2023. From around the second millennium BC until the Roman conquest, the island's people built massive stone towers called talayots, T-shaped stone altars known as taulas, and burial monuments shaped like upturned boats, the navetas. They did it on an astonishing scale for an island of this size, and the stone ruins lie everywhere, in fields and pine woods.
Read the complete C9: North-West area of Tramuntana write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach C9: North-West area of Tramuntana. Next is back through C2: Southwest Area.
4. back through C2: Southwest Area
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete C2: Southwest Area write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through C2: Southwest Area, late in the day. Next is C4: Central-south area of ravines.
5. C4: Central-south area of ravines
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete C4: Central-south area of ravines write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at C4: Central-south area of ravines. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
C4: Central-south area of ravines to C2: Southwest Area
C4: Central-south area of ravines → C2: Southwest Area is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
C2: Southwest Area to C9: North-West area of Tramuntana
C2: Southwest Area → C9: North-West area of Tramuntana is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
C9: North-West area of Tramuntana to back through C2: Southwest Area
C9: North-West area of Tramuntana → back through C2: Southwest Area is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through C2: Southwest Area to C4: Central-south area of ravines
back through C2: Southwest Area → C4: Central-south area of ravines is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.