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 Moratalla it runs 93 km to Moratalla; allow about 2 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Hondares, Abrigo del Sabinar and back through Hondares. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Fuensanta II is the sort of name only an archaeologist could love, a numbered rock shelter in the hills of northwest Murcia where prehistoric painters left a handful of figures on the stone. It is one of the hundreds of sites grouped under UNESCO's listing of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Moratalla area is unusually rich in them. The paintings are small, faint to the untrained eye and protected, so the real value of coming is to understand the landscape that drew people here thousands of years ago: springs, shelter and game in rough, broken country.
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Fuensanta II is where the day begins. Next is Hondares.
Hondares is a word on a map that barely registers, and that is exactly why people come. It lies in the high, dry country where the province of Murcia gives way to Albacete, between the Sierra de Segura foothills and the Segura river, which has carved a long valley here before it spills into the Fuensanta reservoir. Moratalla, the nearest real town, is about twelve kilometres away, and in this part of Spain that counts as close.
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Hondares comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Sabinar.
The Abrigo del Sabinar lies in the remote mountains of north-western Murcia, near Moratalla, where the Sierra de Segura and the Sierra del Taibilla meet, and its paintings of human figures and animals, including deer and goats, are among the finest examples of Levantine rock art in the region. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the area around Moratalla and Nerpio is particularly rich in painted shelters. The landscape is wild and rugged, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and deep river valleys, and the villages are few and far between.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Sabinar. Next is back through Hondares.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hondares write-up.
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back through Hondares, late in the day. Next is Fuensanta II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuensanta II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fuensanta II. That is the ride.
Fuensanta II → Hondares is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hondares → Abrigo del Sabinar is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Sabinar → back through Hondares is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hondares → Fuensanta II is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.