This riding route, Carretera de Sa Calobra, was built in 1932 manually without the help of any machine. Carretera de Sa Calobra (the Colubrid route) includes the infamous Nus de Sa Calobra, a curve of 360 degrees. It is one of the most famous curves in the world, turning 270 degrees and going under itself.
The Carretera de Sa Calobra, also called, MA-2141 is a dead end road which starts in the junction with MA-10 road, near an aqueduct, and finishes on a payment parking, near the beach
The Carretera de Sa Calobra is one of the most dangerous roads in Spain specially on rainy days. It has more than 50 sharp bends on short stretch of road, some sections lack a central road line or guard rails, lots of traffic in summer, but the road is impassable for more than two cars at many sections
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The road is an extension of the MA10 that is accessed between the municipality of Escorca and the artificial reservoir of GorgBlau (at the foot of Puig Major and Puig de Massanella), is a dead end road that ends in a parking lot Payment that gives to the beach of Tuent. Before reaching the beach you will see a cross to the cove of La Calobra , one of the most spectacular and tourist of the whole island of Mallorca.
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