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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124 km from Moratalla to Moratalla, about 3 h 48 of riding. It goes by way of Solana del molinico, Cañaica del Calar l and back through Solana del molinico. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Moratalla is a hill town that spills down a slope beneath its castle in the north-west of Murcia, a maze of steep, narrow streets, whitewashed houses and stairways. Around it lies a vast municipality of mountains, forests and valleys, and in the valley of Benizar, near the Río Benamor, is La Risca, a group of painted shelters that form part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings include human figures and animals, typical of the Levantine style, small and faded but full of life.
Read the complete La Risca I write-up.
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La Risca I is where the day begins. Next is Solana del molinico.
Socovos is the sort of village you only find by getting a little lost: a cluster of white houses below a ruined castle in the far southeast of Albacete province, where the plains of La Mancha give way to the tangled ridges of the Sierra de Segura. Solana del Molinico, close by, is one of the rock-art shelters in this corner of Spain that belong to the UNESCO listing for Levantine rock art. The word solana means a sun-facing slope, and many of these painted overhangs face south, catching the warmth on winter days just as they must have done when hunters and gatherers sheltered here.
Read the complete Solana del molinico write-up.
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Solana del molinico comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cañaica del Calar l.
Very few people get here. The Cañaica del Calar lies in the far north-west of the region of Murcia, near the border with Albacete and Andalusia, in a wild landscape of limestone plateaus, pine forests and deep valleys around Moratalla and Nerpio. The calar is the local word for a limestone plateau, and the rock shelters on its edges hold prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean. The area around Nerpio is one of the richest in Spain for rock art.
Read the complete Cañaica del Calar l write-up.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Cañaica del Calar l. Next is back through Solana del molinico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Solana del molinico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Solana del molinico, late in the day. Next is La Risca I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Risca I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at La Risca I. That is the ride.
La Risca I → Solana del molinico is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Solana del molinico → Cañaica del Calar l is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañaica del Calar l → back through Solana del molinico is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Solana del molinico → La Risca I is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.