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 Jumilla it runs 162 km to Jumilla; allow about 4 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo del mediodía I, Olula and back through Abrigo del mediodía I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 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 comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Olula.
Caudete and Almansa sit in a corridor of land where Castile-La Mancha, Valencia and Murcia meet, and for centuries this was frontier country, where kingdoms and armies passed and fought. Olula is a point in the hills near Caudete, linked on the rides with rock-art shelters in the surrounding sierras, part of the extensive UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in Mediterranean Spain.
Read the complete Olula write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Olula. Next is back through Abrigo del mediodía I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del mediodía I write-up.
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back through Abrigo del mediodía I, 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 → Abrigo del mediodía I is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mediodía I → Olula is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olula → back through Abrigo del mediodía I is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del mediodía I → Cueva del Peliciego is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.