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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Letur it runs 159 km to Letur; allow about 3 h 15 of riding. It goes by way of Andragulla I, Fuente Serrano I and back through Andragulla I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Fuente del Sauco is the elder-tree fountain, a small spring that gave its name to a shelter in the hills between Letur and Socovos in the south of Albacete. Water is the story of this country. The Mundo river rises not far to the west, at a spectacular spring in the Calar del Mundo near Riópar, where it bursts out of a cave in a series of waterfalls, and it flows through the gorges below Letur before joining the Segura. Along its banks, and in the cliffs above, ancient people sheltered and painted, and the Andragulla and other shelters here belong to the same tradition, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO protects.
Read the complete fuente del Sauco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
fuente del Sauco is where the day begins. Next is Andragulla I.
In the far north-west corner of the Region of Murcia, where the land climbs towards the mountains of Albacete and Jaén, lies Moratalla, a town of whitewashed houses piled up a hillside beneath a castle tower. Its countryside is surprisingly wild for Murcia: pine forests, rivers, gorges and limestone ridges, some of the greenest land in a famously dry region. The rock shelter of Andragulla is one of many painted overhangs scattered through these hills, part of the Levantine rock art sites inscribed together by UNESCO. Many are protected behind fences and need a guide; the tourist office in Moratalla can advise.
Read the complete Andragulla I write-up.
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Andragulla I comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fuente Serrano I.
Nerpio is the kind of place that makes you check the map twice. It sits at the head of the Taibilla valley in the far south-west of Albacete province, on a high plateau more than a kilometre above sea level, in the Sierra de Segura, surrounded by mountains and reachable only by long and winding roads. The village is small, with about 1,600 people, and the countryside around it is a mix of cherry orchards, almond groves, pasture and pine forest, with limestone crags and the cold, clear water of the Taibilla river cutting through the valley floor.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 108 km into the recorded legs you reach Fuente Serrano I. Next is back through Andragulla I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Andragulla I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Andragulla I, late in the day. Next is fuente del Sauco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete fuente del Sauco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at fuente del Sauco. That is the ride.
fuente del Sauco → Andragulla I is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Andragulla I → Fuente Serrano I is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuente Serrano I → back through Andragulla I is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Andragulla I → fuente del Sauco is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.