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 618 km round trip from Aledo - roughly 11 h 17 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cejo Cortado I, Abrigo del Canto Blanco, Abrigo del mediodía I and Abric Pedro más. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Aledo is a tiny village on a rocky spur in the hills of Murcia, a place that punches well above its weight in history. In the eleventh century, it was a fortress on the frontier between Christian Castile and the Muslim taifa kingdoms, and the siege of Aledo in 1088 was a major episode in the struggle for the peninsula. A tower still stands above the village. The Cueva de la Plata, the silver cave, lies in the hills nearby, between Aledo, Totana and Alhama de Murcia.
Read the complete Cueva de la Plata write-up.
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Cueva de la Plata is where the day begins. Next is Cejo Cortado I.
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 comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Canto Blanco.
Jumilla is wine country, and you know it as soon as you arrive. The town sits in the north of the Murcia region, surrounded by a high, dry plateau of vineyards growing the Monastrell grape, which produces powerful, dark red wines. A castle tops the hill above the old town, and the bodegas on its outskirts welcome visitors. The Abrigo del Canto Blanco, the shelter of the white stone, lies in the hills about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Abrigo del Canto Blanco write-up.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Canto Blanco. Next is Abrigo del mediodía I.
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, about halfway. Next is Abric Pedro más.
Almansa announces itself from far away: a castle perched on a limestone crag right in the middle of the town, its walls and towers silhouetted against the sky. The town sits at the eastern edge of La Mancha, where the high plateau meets the mountains of Valencia, and it was here, in April 1707, that one of the decisive battles of the War of the Spanish Succession was fought, when the Bourbon army defeated an allied force and secured the throne of Spain for Philip V. A monument on the battlefield and a museum in town tell the story. In the hills to the north, near Alpera, the Abric Pedro Mas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Nearby, the Cueva de la Vieja is one of the best-known Levantine sites, with archers, deer and goats.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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Abric Pedro más sits at 173 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del mediodía I.
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Read the complete Abrigo del mediodía I write-up.
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back through Abrigo del mediodía I comes up about 457 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco.
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Read the complete Abrigo del Canto Blanco write-up.
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about 495 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco. Next is back through Cejo Cortado I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cejo Cortado I write-up.
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back through Cejo Cortado I, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la Plata.
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Read the complete Cueva de la Plata write-up.
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The route ends here after 618 km.
Cueva de la Plata → Cejo Cortado I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cejo Cortado I → Abrigo del Canto Blanco is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Canto Blanco → Abrigo del mediodía I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mediodía I → Abric Pedro más is 148 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric Pedro más → back through Abrigo del mediodía I is 147 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del mediodía I → back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Canto Blanco → back through Cejo Cortado I is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cejo Cortado I → Cueva de la Plata is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.