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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282 km from Velez Rubio to Velez Rubio, about 4 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Cueva de las Palamas, Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo and back through Cueva de las Palamas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Vélez-Rubio is a larger and busier place than its neighbour Vélez-Blanco, with seven thousand people, a lively main street, and a church that is a surprise in a town this size. The Church of the Encarnación, begun in the eighteenth century, has twin towers and a massive Baroque façade, usually described as the largest Baroque church in Almería, and its bulk dominates the roofs. It is a good place to start before riding up toward the mountains, because the fuel stations here are the nearest reliable ones for a long way.
Read the complete Cueva del Tio Labrador write-up.
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Cueva del Tío Labrador is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de las Palamas.
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.
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Cueva de las Palamas comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
A rambla is a dry riverbed that only runs after storms, and the Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is one of many that cut into the limestone hills around Nerpio, in the remote south-western corner of Albacete. In a rock shelter above it, prehistoric people left paintings in the Levantine style, small, lively figures of people and animals, and the site is one of the many shelters around Nerpio that belong to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits are normally arranged through the village, and a guide will know which shelters are accessible and when the light is right for seeing the faded pigment.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
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about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo. Next is back through 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.
back through Cueva de las Palamas, late in the day. Next is Cueva del Tio Labrador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Tio Labrador write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva del Tio Labrador. That is the ride.
Cueva del Tío Labrador → Cueva de las Palamas is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → back through Cueva de las Palamas is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de las Palamas → Cueva del Tio Labrador is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.