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 Ciutadella it runs 95 km to Ciutadella; allow about 1 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: C4: Central-south area of ravines, C7: South-east area-Maó and back through C4: Central-south area of ravines. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Menorca's prehistory is stranger and more abundant than its tourist image suggests. From around 1000 BC, the island's people built huge monuments of unmortared stone, and the big circular towers called talaiots, which probably served as lookout posts, houses or meeting places, dot the island by the hundred. The culture that built them is called Talayotic, and the sites were listed by UNESCO in 2023 as a group of outstanding prehistoric settlements and sanctuaries. This stretch of land, west of Ciutadella, is not far from some of the best examples, among them the Naveta d'es Tudons, one of the oldest roofed buildings in Europe.
Read the complete Talayotic Menorca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Talayotic Menorca is where the day begins. Next is C4: Central-south area of ravines.
Menorca is the quiet island of the Balearics, and its south coast is cut by ravines, the barrancs, that run down from the limestone plateau to the sea in narrow, green clefts. The central-south area is where they are most impressive: Algendar, Trebalúger, Binigaus and others, each a steep-sided channel with wild olive, holm oak and a trickle of water in the bottom, ending in a small beach. The whole island was declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993, and the old walking path that circles it, the Camí de Cavalls, passes by the mouths of most of them.
Read the complete C4: Central-south area of ravines write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
C4: Central-south area of ravines comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is C7: South-east area-Maó.
Menorca is the quieter of the Balearic islands, and Maó, at the eastern end, is its capital and main port. It sits on one of the longest natural harbours in the Mediterranean, a deep inlet that has been fought over by Britons, French and Spanish and that has left the town with Georgian sash windows next to Catalan balconies. The island itself is a UNESCO biosphere reserve, and the south-east, around Maó and Sant Lluís, is where its prehistoric remains are most thickly spread.
Read the complete C7: South-east area-Maó write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach C7: South-east area-Maó. Next is back through C4: Central-south area of ravines.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete C4: Central-south area of ravines write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through C4: Central-south area of ravines, late in the day. Next is Talayotic Menorca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Talayotic Menorca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Talayotic Menorca. That is the ride.
Talayotic Menorca → C4: Central-south area of ravines is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
C4: Central-south area of ravines → C7: South-east area-Maó is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
C7: South-east area-Maó → back through C4: Central-south area of ravines is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through C4: Central-south area of ravines → Talayotic Menorca is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.