the route

Finisterra's 'Lisboa Melilla' is a bikepacking route and an adventure-cycling ride across Portugal (Alentejo region), Spain (Andalusia region) and Morocco (Rif Mountains). The adventure starts in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and finishes in the Spanish autonomous enclave of Melilla, located in North of Africa. It's an on-road route and ride with around 1.250KM & 18.000M of climbing. Long-distance cyclists will experience a radical sociocultural shift in just a few hundred kilometers. However, adventurers also will find also historic and cultural marks of the Islamic presence in Iberian Peninsula and colonial marks in North of Morocco. The ride starts on September 30 2023 in Setúbal (Lisbon Metropolitan Area) and finishes in the gate of Africa / / For others the gateway to Europe: Melilla.