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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From Cehegín it runs 196 km to Cehegín; allow about 4 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Las Cazuelas, Fuente Serrano I, Abrigo de las Cañadas I and back through Fuente Serrano I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Cehegín, in the north-west of the Murcia region, is a town of two faces: a modern lower town, and an old town on a hill, with steep streets, noble houses and churches, declared a historic site. The Cueva de las Palomas, the cave of the doves, lies on the edge of the town, less than a kilometre from the centre, with the larger town of Caravaca de la Cruz about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de las Palamas is where the day begins. Next is Las Cazuelas.
Moratalla is the kind of hill town that looks as though it was poured down a slope: white houses tumbling below a castle tower, narrow lanes too steep for comfort, church bells echoing off the hills. Ten kilometres out, in the rugged country of north-west Murcia, the shelter of Las Cazuelas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the region's contribution to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings are fragile and protected, and access is usually by guided visit, arranged in Moratalla or through the regional authorities.
Read the complete Las Cazuelas write-up.
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Las Cazuelas comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fuente Serrano I.
Nerpio is the kind of place that makes you check the map twice. It sits at the head of the Taibilla valley in the far south-west of Albacete province, on a high plateau more than a kilometre above sea level, in the Sierra de Segura, surrounded by mountains and reachable only by long and winding roads. The village is small, with about 1,600 people, and the countryside around it is a mix of cherry orchards, almond groves, pasture and pine forest, with limestone crags and the cold, clear water of the Taibilla river cutting through the valley floor.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Fuente Serrano I. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas I.
High up in the Sierra del Segura, where the province of Albacete meets Granada and Jaén, the village of Nerpio sits at around eleven hundred metres in a country of oak, pine and bare limestone. The Abrigo de las Cañadas, a rock shelter, lies about twelve kilometres from the village among its dry gullies, in one of the most thinly settled corners of Castilla-La Mancha.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de las Cañadas I, about halfway. Next is back through Fuente Serrano I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fuente Serrano I sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Las Cazuelas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Cazuelas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Las Cazuelas comes up about 166 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de las Palamas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de las Palamas closes the day.
Cueva de las Palamas → Las Cazuelas is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Cazuelas → Fuente Serrano I is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuente Serrano I → Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañadas I → back through Fuente Serrano I is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuente Serrano I → back through Las Cazuelas is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Cazuelas → Cueva de las Palamas is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.