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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345 km from Calasparra to Calasparra, about 6 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de Zaén II, Central E. de Santonje and back through Abrigo de Zaén II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Segura valley around Calasparra and Cieza has been a corridor for as long as people have walked through southern Spain, and the sites known as Arco I and Arco II are two of the shelters that belong to it. Cieza lies thirteen kilometres to the east, and it is a town with a long past: before the Christians took it in the thirteenth century it was Medina Siyâsa, a walled Islamic city of some importance, and the ruins of the old quarter have been excavated on the hill above the river. The town's museums are a useful stop, and Cieza has fuel, shops and cafés.
Read the complete Arco I write-up.
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Arco I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Zaén II.
Zaén is a quiet valley in the north-western corner of the Murcia region, in the municipality of Moratalla, where pine-covered sierras close in and the streams run clear and cold. The Abrigo de Zaén II is one of several painted rock shelters here, and like the others it belongs to the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin, inscribed in 1998. Levantine art, found along the eastern side of the Iberian Peninsula, shows lively figures of humans and animals, often in scenes of hunting, gathering and, sometimes, conflict.
Read the complete Abrigo de Zaén II write-up.
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Abrigo de Zaén II comes up about 89 km into the recorded legs. Next is Central E. de Santonje, 61 km on.
The Indalo, a little stick figure holding an arc over its head, is now the symbol of the whole province of Almería, painted on houses, cars and souvenirs, and it comes from a rock shelter here in the hills around Vélez-Blanco. The Cueva de los Letreros, a few kilometres from this point, holds the original among other paintings of the Levantine and schematic styles, and the shelters of the Sierra de María are part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, inscribed in 1998. Santonje, as the area is called, is one of a cluster of sites in these mountains.
Read the complete Central E. de Santonje write-up.
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about 177 km into the recorded legs you reach Central E. de Santonje. Next is back through Abrigo de Zaén II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Zaén II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Zaén II, late in the day. Next is Arco I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Arco I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Arco I. That is the ride.
Arco I → Abrigo de Zaén II is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Zaén II → Central E. de Santonje is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central E. de Santonje → back through Abrigo de Zaén II is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Zaén II → Arco I is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.