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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A 418 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 10 h 18 in the saddle. On the way it passes Letreros de los mártires, Central E. de Santonje, Cueva de las Palamas and Cueva de los Pucheros. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The sabina is the Spanish juniper, a tough, aromatic tree that grows on the high limestone plateaus of the interior, and the Abrigo de los Sabinares, also called the Ventana de los E, lies in a country where junipers cover the slopes in dark green clumps. The shelter sits eight kilometres from Nerpio, in the high basin of the Sierra del Segura, and it is one of the cluster of painted rocks that UNESCO listed in 1998 as part of the Mediterranean arc. Its neighbours on the route, the Cueva de los Pucheros and the Abrigo de la Fuente, are in the same district.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E write-up.
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Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E is where the day begins. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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Letreros de los mártires comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is Central E. de Santonje, 42 km on.
The Indalo, a little stick figure holding an arc over its head, is now the symbol of the whole province of Almería, painted on houses, cars and souvenirs, and it comes from a rock shelter here in the hills around Vélez-Blanco. The Cueva de los Letreros, a few kilometres from this point, holds the original among other paintings of the Levantine and schematic styles, and the shelters of the Sierra de María are part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, inscribed in 1998. Santonje, as the area is called, is one of a cluster of sites in these mountains.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Central E. de Santonje. Next is Cueva de las Palamas.
Cehegín, in the north-west of the Murcia region, is a town of two faces: a modern lower town, and an old town on a hill, with steep streets, noble houses and churches, declared a historic site. The Cueva de las Palomas, the cave of the doves, lies on the edge of the town, less than a kilometre from the centre, with the larger town of Caravaca de la Cruz about five kilometres away.
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Cueva de las Palamas, about halfway. Next is Cueva de los Pucheros.
North-west of Cieza, the Segura river cuts through a dry landscape of limestone ridges, almond and fruit orchards, and rice fields that look out of place in arid Murcia. The Cueva de los Pucheros, a rock shelter in these hills between Cieza and Calasparra, is one of the many sites in the region holding prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Like most of these shelters, it is fragile and often protected by a fence, and access may require a guided visit arranged through the local authorities.
Read the complete Cueva de los Pucheros write-up.
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Cueva de los Pucheros sits at 165 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de las Palamas.
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Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
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back through Cueva de las Palamas comes up about 255 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Central E. de Santonje, 42 km on.
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Read the complete Central E. de Santonje write-up.
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about 312 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Central E. de Santonje. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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back through Letreros de los mártires, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 418 km.
Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E → Letreros de los mártires is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → Central E. de Santonje is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central E. de Santonje → Cueva de las Palamas is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → Cueva de los Pucheros is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de los Pucheros → back through Cueva de las Palamas is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de las Palamas → back through Central E. de Santonje is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Central E. de Santonje → back through Letreros de los mártires is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros de los mártires → Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.