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CyCLE RoutEs | wesTeRN | level 1
55 km
ACCuMuLAtED CLIMB
alJeZur
950 m
The splendid vicentine Coast offers scenery south along the En 120 towards the uplands of
worthy of the silver screen, stirring strong the serra de Espinhaço de Cão. Keep left until
emotions on the uphill ride from the centre of you reach the Bravura dam and get ready to
Aljezur to Arrifana. After the first ten kilometres, face a tough climb of three kilometres up to the
when you are half way along the route, a vast outskirts of Marmelete. From here, you start the
window will open out over the horizon and the descent back to the seat of the municipality, a
powerful waves that come crashing on to the city which was founded by the Moors in the long-
sands of beautiful beaches such as Monte Clérigo. distant past of the 10th century.
turn back from Arrifana to Aljezur and head
+ DeTAIls
Vicentine Coast
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