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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From Castell de Castells it runs 69 km to Castell de Castells; allow about 1 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Port de Confrides- Abric I, Coves de la Vila and back through Port de Confrides- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Pla de Petracos is one of the most important prehistoric art sites in Spain, and it looks like nothing much: a row of shallow shelters in the side of a ravine near Castell de Castells, in the high interior of the Marina Alta. What makes it special is the style. The paintings here are among the clearest examples of what archaeologists call Macroschematic art, large, bold, almost abstract human figures with raised arms and serpentine forms, painted by the first farming communities of the region in the early Neolithic. Elsewhere in the Valencian mountains you find Levantine hunting scenes; here you find something stranger and more symbolic. A short path and viewing platforms make the panels accessible, and the information boards help you see what the eye misses at first.
Read the complete Pla de Petracos- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pla de Petracos- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Port de Confrides- Abric I.
Inland from Benidorm, barely half an hour from the high-rise towers and the beach crowds, the mountains of Alicante rise steeply and the whole mood changes. The Port de Confrides is the saddle on the CV-70 between the Guadalest valley and the upland basin of Confrides and Benasau, with the long limestone wall of the Sierra de Aitana to the south. Aitana, at 1,558 metres, is the highest peak in the province, and on a clear winter morning you can see the sea glittering behind you as you climb.
Read the complete Port de Confrides- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Port de Confrides- Abric I comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coves de la Vila.
Planes sits in a cleft of the green hills above the Serpis river, in the Comtat, and the village of Beniarrés a few kilometres away is known for its reservoir, which fills the valley floor with a long, quiet sheet of water. The Coves de la Vila are a set of rock shelters in the cliffs above the village, and they belong to the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. The paintings are in the Levantine style, red figures of hunters, goats and deer, and the shelters look out over the valley, giving you the same view as the people who painted them.
Read the complete Coves de la Vila write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 35 km into the recorded legs you reach Coves de la Vila. Next is back through Port de Confrides- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port de Confrides- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Port de Confrides- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Pla de Petracos- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pla de Petracos- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pla de Petracos- Abric I. That is the ride.
Pla de Petracos- Abric I → Port de Confrides- Abric I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port de Confrides- Abric I → Coves de la Vila is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coves de la Vila → back through Port de Confrides- Abric I is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Port de Confrides- Abric I → Pla de Petracos- Abric I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.