Why this ride
251 km from El Campello to El Campello, about 4 h 20 of riding. On the way it passes Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, Abric de Lambert and back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Cueva de la mina and Abric de Lambert
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 251 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 20
- 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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Cueva de la mina
The Cueva de la Mina lies in the hills behind Alicante's northern suburbs, close enough to the coast that you can leave a beach town after lunch and be among rock and scrub within the hour. That gives it a particular pleasure: the contrast. One moment you are among apartment blocks and palm trees at El Campello, a former fishing village that has become a seaside town of twenty-six thousand people, and the next, you are on a narrow lane with the sea shrinking behind you and the sun pressing on the stones.
Read the complete Cueva de la mina write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cueva de la mina is where the day begins. Next is Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric de Lambert.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric de Lambert. Next is back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners.
4. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la mina.
5. Cueva de la mina
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la mina write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Cueva de la mina. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Cueva de la mina to Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners
Cueva de la mina → 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 to Abric de Lambert
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 to back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners
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 to Cueva de la mina
back through Racó de la Cova dels Llidoners → Cueva de la mina is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.