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 343 km round trip from Confrides - roughly 5 h 47 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cova del mansano, Cova del mig dia, Abric de Lambert and back through Cova del mig dia. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Aitana range is the highest in the Alicante hinterland, a long limestone ridge rising to more than fifteen hundred metres above the Costa Blanca, and the village of Benimantell lies in a valley at its foot, with Castell de Castells and Sella tucked into the hills to the east. The Penyó de les Carrasques is a rocky outcrop in this country, and the shelter in it is part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998. The paintings are in the Levantine style, small red figures of hunters and animals, and they look out over a landscape of terraced valleys, quite unlike the high-rise beach towns twenty kilometres away.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I write-up.
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Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Cova del mansano.
Every cyclist in Europe seems to know the Coll de Rates, and that is a good hint for motorcyclists too. The climb starts in Parcent, a few kilometres from the Cova del Mansano, and winds up the mountainside in a long sequence of smooth, well surfaced bends to a pass with a view over the whole Vall de Pop and the sea beyond. The rock shelter itself sits in the hills around Jalón, Alcalalí and Parcent, a short walk from the road, and its paintings belong to the same World Heritage group as the other Levantine shelters of the coast.
Read the complete Cova del mansano write-up.
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Cova del mansano comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova del mig dia.
The Montgó dominates the coast between Dénia and Xàbia, a massive limestone mountain rising to 753 metres straight from the sea, its profile said to resemble a sleeping elephant. The Cova del Mig Dia, the cave of midday, is in the flanks of the Montgó, one of several caves and shelters on the mountain, some with traces of prehistoric occupation and rock art. The Montgó is a natural park, with paths leading through scrub and pine to caves, viewpoints and the summit.
Read the complete Cova del mig dia write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova del mig dia. 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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Abric de Lambert, about halfway. Next is back through Cova del mig dia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova del mig dia write-up.
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back through Cova del mig dia sits at 163 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova del mansano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova del mansano write-up.
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back through Cova del mansano comes up about 280 km into the recorded legs. Next is Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I closes the day.
Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I → Cova del mansano is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova del mansano → Cova del mig dia is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova del mig dia → Abric de Lambert is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric de Lambert → back through Cova del mig dia is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cova del mig dia → back through Cova del mansano is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova del mansano → Penyó de les Carrasques- Abric I is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.