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Ride La Marina Alta is an exceptional way to discover the region without setting aside your faithful companion, that is, your bicycle.
With more than 315 days of sunshine a year, La Marina Alta is an excellent tourist destination in any season. Due to its special orography, beaches surrounded by valleys and mountains, you find yourself in an ideal area to practise your favourite sport. Indeed, it is no coincidence that many professional cycling teams choose it for their practise.
In addition to the large number of identified and waymarked cycling routes, there is also an important variety of trips and activities that can be carried out when passing through the different towns and attractions in these routes.
This is a magnificient opportunity to recognize the natural and scenic resources available in La Marina Alta, usually unknown by visitors. In this way, you will learn on the importance of their conservation, as well as the historical value of its towns through cycle tourism.
As an especialized technical resource, La Marina Alta has an MTB Centre located in the town of Parcent (called BTT Vall de Pop). This establishment is committed to offer high-quality information and support to those who decide to take in this sport either at a professional or entertainment level in the region.
There are certainly routes tailored to the users' needs. Thus, there are different itineraries for those wanting to escape, outdoor adventurers, families with toddlers, or simply sport lovers who choose this region to work-out and achieve their aims.
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Below you can find the itinerary of the intermediate/high-level route Ride La Marina Alta, addressed at cyclists looking for something completely unique or new areas for their training.
This is a route for road cycling, which lasts of at least five hours if done non-stop. This complex itinerary is properly waymarked and tested both by the BTT Vall de Pop and the Patronato Provincial de Turismo de la Costa Blanca, which guarantees its security.
Below you will find the details of the itinerary, as well as the places, activities and tourist options that can be carried out along the route.
Road Cycling
Route: Dénia-Ondara-Benidoleig-Orba-Murla-Benigembla-La Vall d’Ebo-Sagra-Beniarbeig-Ondara-Dénia.
Distance: 84 km
Length: 5 hours
Level: Difficult
Cumulative difference in altitude +/-: +971 m./-970 m
Maximum height: 591 m
On this route you will pass through a total of 9 towns in La Marina Alta region, where you will be able to observe the richness and variety of the landscape, culture, social and tourist attractions that our region offers.
You will start in Dénia, capital of La Marina Alta. Either before leaving or at the end of the tour, you can visit local emblematic places, such as the Castle and its famous tunnel or the Toy Museum. You may also stroll along the Marqués de Campo street or the promenade, or just relax on its more than 20 km of beaches.
The first stop will be in Ondara. Here you can visit outstanding places such as the Bullring - inaugurated in 1901 and rebuilt after the civil war in 1957, or the Dream Botanical Garden with exotic plants from all over the world, caves, wine cellar and exotic fruit tasting.
You will continue until reaching the town of Benidoleig, where you can make a stop at the Cueva de las Calaveras (Cave of the Skulls), a cave that is more than 900 metres long with archaeological remains dating from the Neanderthal period to Homo Sapiens.
The next stops take us to Orba, Murla and Benigembla, three interior towns in the region, where you can visit the Museu del Fang d'Orba (Clay Museum) and walk through the quiet streets of Murla and Benigembla.
After the hardest climb of the route, you will arrive at La Vall d'Ebo, where you will have the opportunity to explore the stunning natural scenery that will captivate you with its valleys, mountains and native flora.
Now that you have finished the first half of the route and are returning to the starting point, you will pass through the locality of Sagra, member of the Rectoría and located in the intermediate zone of the region.
Before passing through Ondara again and arriving in Dénia (the end of the route), we will cross Beniarbeig with its 300 hectares of orange trees and 150 hectares of olive, almond and carob trees.
La Marina Alta offers an enormous selection in the restaurant sector when it comes to offering variety of dishes, quality local products and good service to the customers that immerse themselves into the kitchens of our region.
It is not in vain that Dénia and La Marina Alta are a Unesco City of Gastronomy, a distinction that has been achieved thanks to the great care they take for the local raw materials and the culinary tradition and their avant-gardist chefs.
Here are some of the places along the route where you can put the brakes on your bike and sample the richness of the regional cuisine.
Ruta Pedaleando BTT Denia Orba Benigembla Marina Alta
On this route, and to enjoy even more of the activities and services on offer and the varied cuisine of each town, you can make a stop along the way on our bike ride and choose from the wide range of accommodation on offer, which is one of the things that make the region standout. Throughout the Marina Alta you can find limitless types of accommodation where you can unwind and recharge your batteries in especial and preserved environments. You have selected settings where you can live an incredible experience, relax and enjoy a unique stay. The region's cool weather, with mild winters and temperatures regulated by the sea breeze in summer makes the accommodation offer complete.
Enjoying family, friends and fresh air on our bicycles, you will have at your disposal many leisure and cultural activities available all the year in La Marina Alta. In all the towns suggested in this route, both visitors and residents are offered an interesting range of leisure activities where you can get to know first hand the local customs and traditions in your free time. Most of these events take place in outdoor settings where you can familiarise yourself with the landscape and enjoy the region and its cuisine in the most sustainable way.
Without a doubt, this offer means an ideal complement to your bike tour, which will make the experience even more special.
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