CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 213 km round trip from Socovos - roughly 6 h 03 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abrigo del Sabinar, Canalejas de Abajo, Letreros de los mártires and back through Canalejas de Abajo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Benizar is one of those places that only a handful of maps bother to name. It is a hamlet belonging to Moratalla, in the hilly north-west of the Murcia region, close to where the province meets Albacete and the first ridges of the Sierra de Segura begin. Around it, in the rock faces and gullies, archaeologists have recorded a cluster of painted shelters, and Benizar V is one in this series: a stone overhang with faint prehistoric figures, part of the Levantine rock art that runs along Spain's eastern mountains.
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Benizar V is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Sabinar.
The Abrigo del Sabinar lies in the remote mountains of north-western Murcia, near Moratalla, where the Sierra de Segura and the Sierra del Taibilla meet, and its paintings of human figures and animals, including deer and goats, are among the finest examples of Levantine rock art in the region. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the area around Moratalla and Nerpio is particularly rich in painted shelters. The landscape is wild and rugged, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and deep river valleys, and the villages are few and far between.
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Abrigo del Sabinar comes up 29 km in. Next is Canalejas de Abajo.
Canalejas de Abajo is a name on the map rather than a place with a church and a bar: a scattering of farms and old cortijos in the upper valley of the Taibilla river, south of Nerpio, in the mountains where Albacete, Jaén and Granada meet. The Sierra de Segura and the Sierra de las Cabras rise all around, high limestone country cut by deep valleys, and the region is known among archaeologists for its painted rock shelters. The Abrigo del Sabinar and others along the same valley hold some of the most important prehistoric paintings of the Spanish south east, drawn on the soft overhangs that the river and the wind have shaped.
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58 km in you reach Canalejas de Abajo. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Canalejas de Abajo.
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Read the complete Canalejas de Abajo write-up.
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back through Canalejas de Abajo sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Sabinar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Sabinar comes up 146 km in. Next is Benizar V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Benizar V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Benizar V closes the day.
Benizar V → Abrigo del Sabinar is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Sabinar → Canalejas de Abajo is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Canalejas de Abajo → Letreros de los mártires is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → back through Canalejas de Abajo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Canalejas de Abajo → back through Abrigo del Sabinar is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Sabinar → Benizar V is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.