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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123 km from Letur to Letur, about 2 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Las Cazuelas, Cueva de las Palamas and back through Las Cazuelas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Fuensanta is a place name that turns up all over southern Spain, a holy fountain, and the one on this ride lies in the mountains of the upper Segura, in the border country between Albacete and Murcia. The shelter here, numbered I, is one of the painted sites in the district of Moratalla, a municipality famous among archaeologists for having more rock-art shelters than almost any other in Spain. The paintings are in the Levantine and schematic styles, and the group is part of the UNESCO listing for the rock art of the Mediterranean basin.
Read the complete Fuensanta I write-up.
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Fuensanta I is where the day begins. Next is Las Cazuelas.
Moratalla is the kind of hill town that looks as though it was poured down a slope: white houses tumbling below a castle tower, narrow lanes too steep for comfort, church bells echoing off the hills. Ten kilometres out, in the rugged country of north-west Murcia, the shelter of Las Cazuelas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the region's contribution to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings are fragile and protected, and access is usually by guided visit, arranged in Moratalla or through the regional authorities.
Read the complete Las Cazuelas write-up.
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Las Cazuelas comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de las Palamas. Next is back through Las Cazuelas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Cazuelas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Las Cazuelas, late in the day. Next is Fuensanta I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuensanta I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fuensanta I. That is the ride.
Fuensanta I → Las Cazuelas is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Cazuelas → Cueva de las Palamas is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → back through Las Cazuelas is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Cazuelas → Fuensanta I is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.