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 Vall de Gallinera it runs 131 km to Vall de Gallinera; allow about 2 h 56 of riding. On the way it passes Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III, Pinós and back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Safor is the fertile coastal strip around Gandia, and behind it rise abrupt limestone hills, the Serra de la Safor and its neighbours, where the orange groves give way to pine, scrub and terraces of olives and almonds. Racó del Pou, a sheltered corner in these hills between Villalonga and the Vall d'Ebo, is one of the many rock shelters of the region that hold prehistoric paintings, part of the Mediterranean rock art group listed by UNESCO. Like most of them, it is modest and protected, but the walk up and the view over the hills to the sea are reason enough to come.
Read the complete Racó del Pou write-up.
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Racó del Pou is where the day begins. Next is Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III.
Murla sits in the Vall de Pop, a broad valley of vines, oranges and almonds where the Girona river runs down from the mountains towards the coast at El Verger. The ravine of Alpadull cuts into the hills above, and in one of its shelters, the third along, there are prehistoric paintings, part of the great scatter of rock art across Mediterranean Spain that UNESCO lists as a single site. Like most of these shelters, it is better approached as a reason to wander a beautiful valley than as a spectacle in itself.
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Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Pinós. Next is back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III, late in the day. Next is Racó del Pou.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó del Pou write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Racó del Pou. That is the ride.
Racó del Pou → Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III → Pinós is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pinós → back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc d'Alpadull- Abric III → Racó del Pou is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.