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 Jumilla it runs 258 km to Jumilla; allow about 4 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de los Cortijos, Abrigo del Paso, Cejo Cortado I and back through Abrigo del Paso. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Jumilla country is dry, wide and honest. The town sits in the far north of Murcia where it bulges up towards Albacete, surrounded by limestone sierras, almond groves and vineyards of Monastrell grapes that make some of the most powerful red wine in Spain. A few kilometres outside town, in the folds of these hills, lie a group of small rock shelters known as the Abrigos del Buen Aire. They belong to the long chain of prehistoric painted sites strung along the eastern side of the peninsula that UNESCO lists together as the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Abrigo del Buen Aire I write-up.
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Abrigo del Buen Aire I is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Paso.
Calasparra is a rice town, which is not what most people expect of inland Murcia. The rice grown here, in terraced paddies along the Segura and Mundo rivers, was the first in Spain to receive a protected designation of origin, and it is prized for absorbing flavour without turning to mush, so paella cooks prefer it. The paddies shimmer green in summer and gold in autumn, with herons and egrets feeding in the flooded fields, and behind them rise bare limestone hills, so the effect is of a patch of Asia dropped onto a dry Spanish landscape.
Read the complete Abrigo del Paso write-up.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Paso. Next is Cejo Cortado I.
Mula is a town in the heart of the Murcia region, built on the slopes of a hill crowned by a sixteenth-century castle, with an old quarter of narrow streets, noble houses and churches. Around it, a dry landscape of hills, ravines and badlands opens out, with orchards and olive groves along the river. The Cejo Cortado, a name meaning the cut brow, refers to a rocky escarpment with prehistoric shelters about seven kilometres from the town, between Mula, Albudeite and Ricote.
Read the complete Cejo Cortado I write-up.
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Cejo Cortado I, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Paso.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Paso write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Paso sits at 128 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de los Cortijos comes up about 221 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Buen Aire I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Buen Aire I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del Buen Aire I closes the day.
Abrigo del Buen Aire I → Abrigo de los Cortijos is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cortijos → Abrigo del Paso is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Paso → Cejo Cortado I is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cejo Cortado I → back through Abrigo del Paso is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Paso → back through Abrigo de los Cortijos is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Cortijos → Abrigo del Buen Aire I is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.