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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A 252 km round trip from El Campello - roughly 4 h 21 in the saddle. It goes by way of Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, Abric de Lambert and back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The hills behind Alicante rise quickly. A few kilometres inland from the Costa Blanca, the flat coastal strip gives way to dry limestone ridges covered in scrub, pine, carob and almond, with deep ravines cut by streams that run only after heavy rain. These are the foothills of the Betic ranges, and in this part of the province the land climbs towards the sierras of Aitana and Mariola. El Campello, a former fishing town of about 26,000 people on the coast, is the closest sizeable place, and the nearby resort towns fill with visitors every summer, but the hinterland stays quieter and more rural.
Read the complete Cimbarrillo Prado Reches write-up.
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Cimbarrillo Prado Reches is where the day begins. Next is Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
Somewhere up in these limestone folds, thousands of years ago, someone painted little figures on the rock that are still there. The Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is one of many painted shelters in the Marina Alta, the north-eastern corner of the province of Alicante, which form part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The shelters hold Levantine, Schematic and older Macroschematic paintings, showing hunters, animals and abstract shapes, and many are protected by fences and only visitable with a guide. The valleys around Murla, Orba and Tormos are full of them.
Read the complete Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners write-up.
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Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Lambert.
Cullera is not where most people would look for prehistory. It is a busy beach town at the mouth of the Júcar, with high-rise apartments along the sand, a lighthouse on the point and rice fields stretching inland toward the Albufera lagoon. But the town has a mountain at its back, a limestone outcrop crowned by a castle and a sanctuary, and in that rock there are shelters, including the one known as the Abric de Lambert.
Read the complete Abric de Lambert write-up.
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about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Lambert. Next is back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, late in the day. Next is Cimbarrillo Prado Reches.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cimbarrillo Prado Reches write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cimbarrillo Prado Reches. That is the ride.
Cimbarrillo Prado Reches → Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Abric de Lambert is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric de Lambert → back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Cimbarrillo Prado Reches is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.