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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A 197 km round trip from Teulada - roughly 4 h 16 in the saddle. On the way it passes Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, Coves Roges- Abric I, El Pantanet and back through Coves Roges- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Marina Alta is the northern Costa Blanca at its most mixed: villas on every slope, a ribbon of coast running from Moraira to Jávea, and just behind it, farm terraces, dry stone walls and small rock shelters where prehistoric people left their mark. The Cova de la Catxupa, near Teulada and Benitachell, is one of them, a shelter in the hills a few kilometres from the sea, listed with the other Mediterranean rock art of the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
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Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I 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 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coves Roges- Abric I.
Planes looks like a village that has been arguing with gravity for a thousand years and winning. Its houses climb a hill crowned by the remains of a Moorish castle, and the whole place overlooks a valley of olive and almond terraces that falls toward the Beniarrés reservoir. The Coves Roges, the red caves, lie in the broken limestone country around here, and the first of their shelters carries prehistoric paintings, part of the scattered rock art of the Valencian mountains. The colour in the name is not poetry: the rock itself is stained a warm iron red.
Read the complete Coves Roges- Abric I write-up.
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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Coves Roges- Abric I. Next is El Pantanet.
Few riders have heard of the Serra de Mariola, and that is a pity, because this little limestone range between Alcoi, Bocairent and Ontinyent is one of the most rewarding corners of inland Valencia. El Pantanet, near the village of Alfafara, is a small rock shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the many sites in the UNESCO listing of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. As with most of its sisters, it is protected and access may be limited, but the hills around it reward the trip on their own.
Read the complete El Pantanet write-up.
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El Pantanet, about halfway. Next is back through Coves Roges- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coves Roges- Abric I write-up.
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back through Coves Roges- Abric I sits at 107 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 169 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I closes the day.
Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Coves Roges- Abric I is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coves Roges- Abric I → El Pantanet is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Pantanet → back through Coves Roges- Abric I is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coves Roges- Abric I → back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.