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 357 km to Jumilla; allow about 6 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de las Enredaderas, Cueva de las Conchas, Fuensanta II and Abrigo de la Viñuela. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Abrigo del Canto Blanco write-up.
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Abrigo del Canto Blanco is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de las Conchas. Next is Fuensanta II.
Fuensanta II is the sort of name only an archaeologist could love, a numbered rock shelter in the hills of northwest Murcia where prehistoric painters left a handful of figures on the stone. It is one of the hundreds of sites grouped under UNESCO's listing of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Moratalla area is unusually rich in them. The paintings are small, faint to the untrained eye and protected, so the real value of coming is to understand the landscape that drew people here thousands of years ago: springs, shelter and game in rough, broken country.
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Fuensanta II, about halfway. Next is Abrigo de la Viñuela.
Segura de la Sierra is a village that looks like a stage set, and it is real. It sits on a conical hill above the olive groves of the upper Guadalimar valley, crowned by a castle, with narrow lanes of whitewashed houses winding up to the walls, and from the top the view takes in miles of olives, pine-covered ridges and distant sierras. The castle was a stronghold of the Order of Santiago, the knightly order that held much of this frontier in the Middle Ages. It has a Moorish bath house, restored and open to the public, a bullring built into the rock, and a medieval keep.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Viñuela write-up.
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Abrigo de la Viñuela sits at 146 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fuensanta II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuensanta II write-up.
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back through Fuensanta II comes up about 218 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cueva de las Conchas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de las Conchas write-up.
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about 256 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cueva de las Conchas. Next is back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Enredaderas write-up.
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back through Abrigo de las Enredaderas, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Canto Blanco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Canto Blanco write-up.
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The route ends here after 357 km.
Abrigo del Canto Blanco → Abrigo de las Enredaderas is 44 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 → Fuensanta II is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuensanta II → Abrigo de la Viñuela is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Viñuela → back through Fuensanta II is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuensanta II → back through Cueva de las Conchas is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Abrigo del Canto Blanco is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.