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 212 km round trip from Montealegre del Castillo - roughly 4 h 11 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.
Monte Arabí rises from the high plain north of Yecla like a ship run aground, a lonely mass of sandstone with flat top and fluted sides, and locals have told stories about it for centuries: Moorish treasure, enchanted caves, a hidden city. The real treasure is painted. The Cantos de la Visera shelters on its slopes hold prehistoric rock art, including Levantine figures of animals and schematic signs, and they belong to the great series of Mediterranean rock art sites listed by UNESCO. There are also strange carved holes and basins in the rock, whose purpose is still debated.
Read the complete Cantos de la Visera I write-up.
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Cantos de la Visera 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.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Cortijos sits at 126 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 Cantos de la Visera I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cantos de la Visera I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cantos de la Visera I closes the day.
Cantos de la Visera 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 → Cantos de la Visera I is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.