CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Almansa it runs 573 km to Almansa; allow about 11 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Cantos de la Visera I, Abrigo del Canto Blanco, Abrigo de las Enredaderas and Cueva de las Conchas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Almansa announces itself from far away: a castle perched on a limestone crag right in the middle of the town, its walls and towers silhouetted against the sky. The town sits at the eastern edge of La Mancha, where the high plateau meets the mountains of Valencia, and it was here, in April 1707, that one of the decisive battles of the War of the Spanish Succession was fought, when the Bourbon army defeated an allied force and secured the throne of Spain for Philip V. A monument on the battlefield and a museum in town tell the story. In the hills to the north, near Alpera, the Abric Pedro Mas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Cueva de la Vieja is one of the best-known Levantine sites, with archers, deer and goats.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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Abric Pedro más is where the day begins. Next is Cantos de la Visera I.
Monte Arabí rises from the high plain north of Yecla like a ship run aground, a lonely mass of sandstone with flat top and fluted sides, and locals have told stories about it for centuries: Moorish treasure, enchanted caves, a hidden city. The real treasure is painted. The Cantos de la Visera shelters on its slopes hold prehistoric rock art, including Levantine figures of animals and schematic signs, and they belong to the great series of Mediterranean rock art sites listed by UNESCO. There are also strange carved holes and basins in the rock, whose purpose is still debated.
Read the complete Cantos de la Visera I write-up.
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Cantos de la Visera I comes up about 147 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Canto Blanco.
Jumilla is wine country, and you know it as soon as you arrive. The town sits in the north of the Murcia region, surrounded by a high, dry plateau of vineyards growing the Monastrell grape, which produces powerful, dark red wines. A castle tops the hill above the old town, and the bodegas on its outskirts welcome visitors. The Abrigo del Canto Blanco, the shelter of the white stone, lies in the hills about five kilometres away.
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about 186 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Canto Blanco. Next is Abrigo de las Enredaderas.
Where the Río Segura squeezes through the sandstone and limestone ridges of northern Murcia, between Calasparra and Cieza, the valley turns into a canyon of orange and grey rock with narrow green strips of reeds and orchard along the water. The Abrigo de las Enredaderas, a rock shelter, lies twelve kilometres or so from both towns, in dry hills of pine, rosemary and esparto grass that smell sharply of resin on a hot day.
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Abrigo de las Enredaderas, about halfway. Next is Cueva de las Conchas.
Cehegín's old town rises in a tight cluster of ochre houses and church towers on a hill above the Argos river, in the northwest of Murcia, and it is one of the best-preserved historic centres in the region, with narrow streets, noble houses and churches dating back to the sixteenth century. The Cueva de las Conchas, the cave of the shells, lies less than a kilometre from the town, and it is part of the rich network of prehistoric sites in this area, included in the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art.
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Cueva de las Conchas sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas.
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back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas comes up about 343 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco.
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about 387 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco. Next is back through Cantos de la Visera I.
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Read the complete Cantos de la Visera I write-up.
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back through Cantos de la Visera I, late in the day. Next is Abric Pedro más.
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The route ends here after 573 km.
Abric Pedro más → Cantos de la Visera I is 147 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cantos de la Visera I → Abrigo del Canto Blanco is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Canto Blanco → Abrigo de las Enredaderas is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Enredaderas → Cueva de las Conchas is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Conchas → back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas → back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco → back through Cantos de la Visera I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cantos de la Visera I → Abric Pedro más is 148 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.