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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269 km from Villajoyosa to Villajoyosa, about 3 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I, Cova de la Petxina and back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Villajoyosa, the Vila, is one of those towns that makes a bad first impression only on the way in. The approach is lined with apartment blocks, but the old seafront is a long row of houses painted in bright colours, ochre, pink, blue and green, said to have helped fishermen find their own door from the sea. Behind the harbour the church stands fortress-like, built with walls designed to withstand pirate raids, and the whole place smells faintly of the sea and, oddly, of chocolate, because the town is home to one of Spain's best known chocolate makers, founded in the nineteenth century. The Tabla de Pochico lies in the hills a few kilometres inland, in the scrubby, rocky land that rises behind the coast.
Read the complete Tabla de Pochico write-up.
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Tabla de Pochico is where the day begins. Next is Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
The Marina Alta is the northern Costa Blanca at its most mixed: villas on every slope, a ribbon of coast running from Moraira to Jávea, and just behind it, farm terraces, dry stone walls and small rock shelters where prehistoric people left their mark. The Cova de la Catxupa, near Teulada and Benitachell, is one of them, a shelter in the hills a few kilometres from the sea, listed with the other Mediterranean rock art of the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
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Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de la Petxina.
Bellús is a small village in the valley of the Albaida river in southern Valencia, just upstream from where the river flows into a reservoir and then joins the Júcar. The old village was partly flooded by the reservoir, and the new one stands on higher ground. The Cova de la Petxina, the cave of the shell, is in the hills near the village, close to Guadasequies and Genovés.
Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
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about 134 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de la Petxina. Next is back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I write-up.
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back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Tabla de Pochico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tabla de Pochico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tabla de Pochico. That is the ride.
Tabla de Pochico → Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → Cova de la Petxina is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cova de la Petxina → back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cova de la Catxupa- Abric I → Tabla de Pochico is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.