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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From Castell de Castells it runs 291 km to Castell de Castells; allow about 5 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Pinós, Coves Santes de Dalt, Abric de Lambert and back through Coves Santes de Dalt. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Racó de Sorellets is tucked between Castell de Castells and Vall d'Ebo, and to reach it you cross some of the most rugged ground in northern Alicante. This is the country of the Serrella and its neighbours, a jumble of ridges and ravines that the sea breeze hardly reaches, where goats still graze and the villages cling to the sides of the valley. Pego sits ten kilometres away on the plain, and the gap in character between the two is startling.
Read the complete Racó de Sorellets- Abric I write-up.
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Racó de Sorellets- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Pinós.
Inland from the busy coast of the Marina Alta, behind Benissa and Calp, the land folds into a series of steep, terraced valleys where almond and olive trees cling to dry-stone walls and white farmhouses sit among the pines. Pinós is a rural area in the hills near Benissa, Senija and Jalón, and the rides link it to the rock-art shelters of the barrancs, the ravines that cut through the limestone of this region, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean prehistoric art. The exact contents of the nearby shelters are for specialists, but the landscape itself has a quiet, timeless beauty, especially in the soft light of late afternoon.
Read the complete Pinós write-up.
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Pinós comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Coves Santes de Dalt.
The Montgó is the great limestone hulk that rises between Dénia and Jávea on the Costa Blanca, a mountain that looks like a sleeping elephant from some angles and dominates every view along this stretch of coast. On its flanks, in shelters and small caves, are prehistoric paintings, and the Coves Santes de Dalt, the upper holy caves, are among the sites in the area recorded as part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings here are mostly schematic, simpler and more abstract than the hunting scenes found inland, and the shelters are protected, so viewing usually needs a guided visit.
Read the complete Coves Santes de Dalt write-up.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Coves Santes de Dalt. 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 Coves Santes de Dalt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coves Santes de Dalt write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Coves Santes de Dalt sits at 173 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pinós.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pinós write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pinós comes up about 257 km into the recorded legs. Next is Racó de Sorellets- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó de Sorellets- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Racó de Sorellets- Abric I closes the day.
Racó de Sorellets- Abric I → Pinós is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pinós → Coves Santes de Dalt is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coves Santes de Dalt → Abric de Lambert is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric de Lambert → back through Coves Santes de Dalt is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Coves Santes de Dalt → back through Pinós is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pinós → Racó de Sorellets- Abric I is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.