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 489 km round trip from Jumilla - roughly 8 h 34 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abric Pedro más, Abrigo del mal Paso and back through Abric Pedro más. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 151 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del mal Paso.
The Júcar is the river behind this stop, though you cannot see it from the shelter. Millares is a village of about five hundred people in the broken hill country of inland Valencia, not far from where the great river runs out of the mountains and into the reservoir at Tous. The country around is a labyrinth of gorges, ravines and small plateaux, cut by the Júcar and its tributaries, with pine woods on the slopes and bare limestone on the tops.
Read the complete Abrigo del mal Paso write-up.
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about 243 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del mal Paso. Next is back through Abric Pedro más.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric Pedro más write-up.
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back through Abric Pedro más, late in the day. Next is 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 at Cueva del Peliciego. That is the ride.
Cueva del Peliciego → Abric Pedro más is 151 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abric Pedro más → Abrigo del mal Paso is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mal Paso → back through Abric Pedro más is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abric Pedro más → Cueva del Peliciego is 151 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.