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 Alaior it runs 133 km to Alaior; allow about 2 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes C3: Western Migjorn area, C9: North-West area of Tramuntana and back through C3: Western Migjorn area. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Menorca is a gentler island than its neighbours, and the Talaiotic culture left behind a remarkable landscape of stone monuments that UNESCO recognised in 2023. These are the talaiots, round or square towers of dry stone, the taulas, great T-shaped stone altars, and the navetas, boat-shaped tombs, all dating from the second and first millennia BC. Nobody knows exactly what the people who built them believed, but the sheer number is astonishing for an island that you can cross by car in an hour. C5 is one of the numbered zones of that heritage landscape, in the area between the ravines of Torrevella, south of Alaior.
Read the complete C5: Area between the ravines of Torrevella write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
C5: Area between the ravines of Torrevella is where the day begins. Next is C3: Western Migjorn area.
Menorca has more prehistoric monuments per square kilometre than almost anywhere in Europe, and the south-west of the island is a good place to see why. The people who lived here in the Bronze and Iron Ages built talayots, round towers of stacked stones, and taules, T-shaped stone altars, and navetas, burial chambers shaped like upturned boats, in a culture that lasted for over a thousand years. In 2023 UNESCO added the Talayotic Culture of Minorca to its list, and the western Migjorn area, the south-west of the island, is one of the zones included.
Read the complete C3: Western Migjorn area write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
C3: Western Migjorn area comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach C9: North-West area of Tramuntana. Next is back through C3: Western Migjorn area.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete C3: Western Migjorn area write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through C3: Western Migjorn area, late in the day. Next is C5: Area between the ravines of Torrevella.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete C5: Area between the ravines of Torrevella write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at C5: Area between the ravines of Torrevella. That is the ride.
C5: Area between the ravines of Torrevella → C3: Western Migjorn area is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
C3: Western Migjorn area → C9: North-West area of Tramuntana is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
C9: North-West area of Tramuntana → back through C3: Western Migjorn area is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through C3: Western Migjorn area → C5: Area between the ravines of Torrevella is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.