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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374 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 7 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Molino de Capel I, Abrigo del Pozo III, Abrigo de los Cortijos and Cueva del Peliciego. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 34 km of Abrigo de la Llagosa → Molino de Capel I.
The upper Segura valley, south of Nerpio, is a world of cliffs and reservoirs, and the place called La Llagosa lies in the middle of it. This is the Sierra de Segura, a limestone massif that forms part of one of Spain's biggest natural parks, the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, a UNESCO biosphere reserve. It is a land of pine forest and rocky ridges, where the Segura and its tributaries cut deep valleys, and the landscape is dotted with small villages like Yeste and Letur, whose white houses cluster on rocky spurs.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Llagosa write-up.
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Abrigo de la Llagosa is where the day begins. Next is Molino de Capel I.
Moratalla stands at the north-west corner of Murcia like a lookout post, and the highlands behind it feel far from the coast. The town is crowned by a medieval castle and its streets run down a steep hillside, and the municipality covers a huge area of pine forest, ravines and rock shelters, many of them holding prehistoric paintings that now sit on the World Heritage list. The Molino de Capel, a watermill name from a rural spot in the hills near the Albacete border, belongs to that scattered countryside, where old farms, mills and caves sit in a landscape of rosemary, thyme and holm oak.
Read the complete Molino de Capel I write-up.
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Molino de Capel I comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Pozo III.
The Segura river cuts through the north-west of Murcia in a series of gorges and green oases, and near Calasparra its banks hold a surprising treasure. The Abrigo del Pozo shelters, of which this is the third, contain prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, small human and animal figures in red ochre that form part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean arc. The shelters are fragile and generally protected, often visited only with a guide, so check with the local tourist office before you count on seeing them.
Read the complete Abrigo del Pozo III write-up.
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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Pozo III. Next is Abrigo de los Cortijos.
Hellín is a town in the south-east of Albacete province, on the edge of the dry plains of La Mancha, where the landscape breaks into hills and ravines on its way down to the Segura river. Its old town climbs a hill crowned by a castle, and its streets are lined with houses from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Abrigo de los Cortijos lies in the hills about nine kilometres from the town, toward Albatana and Tobarra.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Cortijos, about halfway. Next is Cueva del Peliciego.
Jumilla is wine. This town in the north of Murcia sits in a high, dry valley surrounded by bare mountains, and its vineyards, planted with the Monastrell grape, produce powerful red wines under the Jumilla designation of origin, one of the oldest in Spain. The Cueva del Peliciego, a rock shelter in the hills near the town, holds prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, and it has been known since the early twentieth century, when it was one of the first rock art sites studied in the region.
Read the complete Cueva del Peliciego write-up.
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Cueva del Peliciego sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de los Cortijos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Cortijos comes up about 222 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo del Pozo III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Pozo III write-up.
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about 276 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo del Pozo III. Next is back through Molino de Capel I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molino de Capel I write-up.
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back through Molino de Capel I, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Llagosa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Llagosa write-up.
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The route ends here after 374 km.
Abrigo de la Llagosa → Molino de Capel I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molino de Capel I → Abrigo del Pozo III is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Pozo III → Abrigo de los Cortijos is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cortijos → Cueva del Peliciego is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Peliciego → back through Abrigo de los Cortijos is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Cortijos → back through Abrigo del Pozo III is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Pozo III → back through Molino de Capel I is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Molino de Capel I → Abrigo de la Llagosa is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.