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 Quesada it runs 372 km to Quesada; allow about 7 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Letreros de los mártires, Las Covachicas and back through Letreros de los mártires. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Quesada is an olive town, and the hills around it are a sea of silver-green trees running up to the foot of the Cazorla ranges. Cerro Vitar rises just over three kilometres from the town, a low rocky hill on the edge of the Sierra de Quesada, where the groves end and the limestone begins. The shelter that bears its name is one of several in the district that carry prehistoric paintings, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo del Cerro Vitar write-up.
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Abrigo del Cerro Vitar 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 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Covachicas.
The Sierra del Segura, in the far south of Albacete province, is a world of its own: deep valleys, rivers lined with poplars, terraces of olive and almond trees, and white villages that look more Andalusian than Castilian. Letur is one of the most beautiful, a village of Moorish origin built on a rock above a stream, with narrow alleys, arches and gardens watered by old irrigation channels. Las Covachicas, a group of shelters, lies in the hills nearby, between Letur, Socovos and Férez.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
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about 185 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Covachicas. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Letreros de los mártires, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Cerro Vitar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Cerro Vitar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Cerro Vitar. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Cerro Vitar → Letreros de los mártires is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Letreros de los mártires → Las Covachicas is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Las Covachicas → back through Letreros de los mártires is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Letreros de los mártires → Abrigo del Cerro Vitar is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.