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 155 km round trip from Alpera - roughly 4 h 22 in the saddle. The stops in between: Barranco del Cabezo del moro, Olula and back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Alpera is a farming town of about two thousand three hundred people on the high, wind-swept plain of southern Albacete, where La Mancha slides toward the Valencian hills. It is famous in the archaeology books for the Cueva de la Vieja, a shelter with a dense frieze of Levantine paintings, among the most celebrated in Spain, and the Cueva del Queso, the Cheese Cave, is one of its neighbours. Together these belong to the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO site since 1998.
Read the complete Cueva del Queso write-up.
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Cueva del Queso is where the day begins. Next is Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Almansa is one of those towns you see from the motorway and do not stop at, and that is a mistake. Its castle is spectacular, a Gothic fortress built on a sharp limestone outcrop right in the middle of town, looking exactly like a child's drawing of a castle. Around it spreads a wide plain at about seven hundred metres, the meeting point of the Valencian, Murcian and Castilian lands, and a few kilometres out in the surrounding hills lies the ravine known as the Barranco del Cabezo del Moro.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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Barranco del Cabezo del moro comes up about 38 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 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Olula. Next is back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranco del Cabezo del moro write-up.
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back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro, late in the day. Next is Cueva del Queso.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Queso write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva del Queso. That is the ride.
Cueva del Queso → Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Olula is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olula → back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranco del Cabezo del moro → Cueva del Queso is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.