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 243 km round trip from Almudaina - roughly 4 h 19 in the saddle. On the way it passes Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I, Garganta de la Hoz I and back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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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Coves Roges- 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.
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Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
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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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I. Next is Garganta de la Hoz I.
Behind the beaches and high-rises of the Costa Blanca, a few kilometres inland from Alicante and El Campello, the land rises quickly into dry limestone hills, scrub and almond terraces. This is the beginning of the Betic ranges, and the area is cut by ravines, barrancos, which carry water only after heavy storms and have carved gorges in the soft rock. Garganta de la Hoz is the name of such a gorge, a narrow cut in the hills, and the I suggests that more than one point on the ride lies along it.
Read the complete Garganta de la Hoz I write-up.
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Garganta de la Hoz I, about halfway. Next is back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
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Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
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back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
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Read the complete Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners write-up.
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back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners comes up about 217 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coves Roges- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coves Roges- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Coves Roges- Abric I closes the day.
Coves Roges- Abric I → Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → Garganta de la Hoz I is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Garganta de la Hoz I → back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Coves Roges- Abric I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.