CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Mula it runs 237 km to Mula; allow about 4 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Cueva-sima de la Serreta, Abrigo de los Cortijos, Cueva del Peliciego and back through Abrigo de los Cortijos. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Mula is a town in the heart of the Murcia region, built on the slopes of a hill crowned by a sixteenth-century castle, with an old quarter of narrow streets, noble houses and churches. Around it, a dry landscape of hills, ravines and badlands opens out, with orchards and olive groves along the river. The Cejo Cortado, a name meaning the cut brow, refers to a rocky escarpment with prehistoric shelters about seven kilometres from the town, between Mula, Albudeite and Ricote.
Read the complete Cejo Cortado I write-up.
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Cejo Cortado I is where the day begins. Next is Cueva-sima de la Serreta.
Calasparra is rice country, which surprises people who think of Murcia as parched and brown. The rice grows in terraced paddies fed by the clear, cold waters of the Segura, and the short-grain variety grown here has protected status and a reputation among Spanish cooks as the best for paella and slow rice dishes. Just upstream, the river squeezes through the Almadenes gorge, a narrow cleft between limestone walls where vultures soar and the water runs deep green. The Cueva-sima de la Serreta lies in the dry hills above, near the border with Cieza, in a land of rock and pine.
Read the complete Cueva-sima de la Serreta write-up.
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Cueva-sima de la Serreta comes up 31 km in. 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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62 km in you reach Abrigo de los Cortijos. 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, 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 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva-sima de la Serreta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva-sima de la Serreta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva-sima de la Serreta comes up 156 km in. Next is Cejo Cortado I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cejo Cortado I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cejo Cortado I closes the day.
Cejo Cortado I → Cueva-sima de la Serreta is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva-sima de la Serreta → Abrigo de los Cortijos is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cortijos → Cueva del Peliciego is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Peliciego → back through Abrigo de los Cortijos is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Cortijos → back through Cueva-sima de la Serreta is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva-sima de la Serreta → Cejo Cortado I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.