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 Puebla de Don Fadrique it runs 364 km to Puebla de Don Fadrique; allow about 8 h 24 of riding. On the way it passes Cueva del Gitano, Molino de Capel I, Abrigo de la Llagosa and Molino de Capel Il. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 38 km of Molino de Capel I → Abrigo de la Llagosa.
Deep in the Sierra de Segura in the northeast of Jaén province, close to where the Segura river is born, the Engarbo rock shelters hide a few small painted figures under limestone overhangs. They belong to the great serial UNESCO listing of Levantine rock art, prehistoric paintings found along the mountains of eastern Spain, with stylised humans and animals in red ochre that have survived thousands of years of sun, frost and goats. The shelters are modest and fragile, often fenced, and visits usually need to be arranged locally, so treat them as a reason to explore this remote corner rather than a guaranteed sight.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
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Abrigo del Engarbo is where the day begins. Next is Cueva del Gitano.
Some places are remote on the map and remote in the gut, and the country around the Cueva del Gitano is both. It lies in the Sierra de Segura on the southern fringe of Albacete province, in the municipality of Nerpio, where the mountains of Albacete, Murcia, Jaén and Granada all run into one another. This is one of the richest areas for prehistoric rock art in Spain, with dozens of painted shelters along the valley of the Taibilla river and its side ravines, and the Cueva del Gitano is one of the smaller sites in that dense cluster. The art is faint, the walk can be rough, and the setting does most of the talking.
Read the complete Cueva del Gitano write-up.
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Cueva del Gitano comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 103 km into the recorded legs you reach Molino de Capel I. Next is Abrigo de la Llagosa.
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, about halfway. Next is Molino de Capel Il.
Sitting in the high interior of Albacete, the Molino de Capel is a mill name, and the shelter marked Molino de Capel II lies in the countryside near the Río Segura, fourteen kilometres from Moratalla across the border in Murcia. Rivers are the vital organs of this dry land. The Segura, which rises in the Sierra de Segura in Jaén and runs over four hundred kilometres to the Mediterranean at Guardamar, is thin and green at its edges and brown and tired by the end of its course, but here in the headwaters it is still lively.
Read the complete Molino de Capel Il write-up.
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Molino de Capel Il sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la Llagosa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Llagosa write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la Llagosa comes up about 218 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Molino de Capel I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molino de Capel I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 257 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Molino de Capel I. Next is back through Cueva del Gitano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Gitano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva del Gitano, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Engarbo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 364 km.
Abrigo del Engarbo → Cueva del Gitano is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Gitano → Molino de Capel I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molino de Capel I → Abrigo de la Llagosa is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Llagosa → Molino de Capel Il is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molino de Capel Il → back through Abrigo de la Llagosa is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Llagosa → back through Molino de Capel I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Molino de Capel I → back through Cueva del Gitano is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva del Gitano → Abrigo del Engarbo is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.