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 211 km round trip from Montealegre del Castillo - roughly 4 h 08 in the saddle. It goes by way of Cueva del Peliciego, Abrigo de los Cortijos, Abrigo del Paso and back through Abrigo de los Cortijos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
North of Yecla, where the Murcia region meets Albacete, the land rises into a series of isolated limestone hills above a wide, dry plain of vineyards and almond groves. The rock shelters scattered through this country, including the Abrigo del Mediodía, are part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean Iberian rock art. The best known cluster is on Monte Arabí, a striking, isolated rock mountain north of the town, whose Cantos de la Visera shelters hold both Levantine and schematic paintings.
Read the complete Abrigo del mediodía I write-up.
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Abrigo del mediodía I is where the day begins. Next is Cueva del Peliciego.
Jumilla is wine. This town in the north of Murcia sits in a high, dry valley surrounded by bare mountains, and its vineyards, planted with the Monastrell grape, produce powerful red wines under the Jumilla designation of origin, one of the oldest in Spain. The Cueva del Peliciego, a rock shelter in the hills near the town, holds prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, and it has been known since the early twentieth century, when it was one of the first rock art sites studied in the region.
Read the complete Cueva del Peliciego write-up.
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Cueva del Peliciego comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de los Cortijos. 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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Abrigo del Paso, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de los Cortijos.
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Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Cortijos sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva del Peliciego.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Peliciego write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva del Peliciego comes up about 183 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del mediodía I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del mediodía I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del mediodía I closes the day.
Abrigo del mediodía I → Cueva del Peliciego is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Peliciego → Abrigo de los Cortijos is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cortijos → Abrigo del Paso is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Cueva del Peliciego is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva del Peliciego → Abrigo del mediodía I is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.