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 518 km round trip from Yeste - roughly 10 h 38 in the saddle. The stops in between: Central E. de Santonje, Cueva de la Plata and back through Central E. de Santonje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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Diosa madre is where the day begins. Next is Central E. de Santonje, 70 km on.
The Indalo, a little stick figure holding an arc over its head, is now the symbol of the whole province of Almería, painted on houses, cars and souvenirs, and it comes from a rock shelter here in the hills around Vélez-Blanco. The Cueva de los Letreros, a few kilometres from this point, holds the original among other paintings of the Levantine and schematic styles, and the shelters of the Sierra de María are part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, inscribed in 1998. Santonje, as the area is called, is one of a cluster of sites in these mountains.
Read the complete Central E. de Santonje write-up.
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Central E. de Santonje comes up about 154 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Plata.
Aledo is a tiny village on a rocky spur in the hills of Murcia, a place that punches well above its weight in history. In the eleventh century, it was a fortress on the frontier between Christian Castile and the Muslim taifa kingdoms, and the siege of Aledo in 1088 was a major episode in the struggle for the peninsula. A tower still stands above the village. The Cueva de la Plata, the silver cave, lies in the hills nearby, between Aledo, Totana and Alhama de Murcia.
Read the complete Cueva de la Plata write-up.
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about 259 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Plata. Next is back through Central E. de Santonje, 69 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Central E. de Santonje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Central E. de Santonje, late in the day. Next is Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Diosa madre. That is the ride.
Diosa madre → Central E. de Santonje is 154 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Central E. de Santonje → Cueva de la Plata is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de la Plata → back through Central E. de Santonje is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Central E. de Santonje → Diosa madre is 154 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.