{"id":11566,"date":"2016-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.activacostablanca.com\/uncategorized\/bicycle-tour-up-to-the-coll-de-rates-and-castell-de-castells\/"},"modified":"2016-01-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:00:00","slug":"bicycle-tour-up-to-the-coll-de-rates-and-castell-de-castells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activacostablanca.com\/en\/sportscycling\/bicycle-tour-up-to-the-coll-de-rates-and-castell-de-castells\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle Tour up to the Coll de Rates and Castell de Castells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The route we chose today was quite short, with a coffee stop in Castell de Castells it took as 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p>We started in Benissa at around 9 p.m., passing Jalon, Alcalali and Parcent, climbing up the Coll de Rates ( you can take your time for this passage in a specially instaled facility)<\/p>\n<p>From there the street leeds to Tarbena, we have done lots of times the downhill to Callosa d&#8217;en Sarria, but today we decided to bike over to Castell de Castells, which is a very picturesque, well asphalted road, with a good mix of ups and downs<\/p>\n<p>From Castell we decided to go back to Benissa, passing Benigembla, Parcent, Alcalali and Jalon once more &#8211; if you like to extend the route, go from Benigambla to Murla, Orba, Pedreguer and drive back the N332, you add easy another 1 hour onto!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.activacostablanca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Coll-de-Rates-sign-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Coll-de-Rates-sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.activacostablanca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coll-de-rates7-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"coll de rates7\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.activacostablanca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coll-de-rates4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coll de rates4\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.activacostablanca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coll-de-rates2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"coll de rates2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.activacostablanca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coll-de-rates-5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"coll de rates 5\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.activacostablanca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coll-de-rates-con-andres-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"coll de rates con andres\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The route we chose today was quite short, with a coffee stop in Castell de Castells it took as 4 hours. 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