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 355 km to Moratalla; allow about 6 h 54 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo del mojao, Letreros de los mártires and back through Abrigo del mojao. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
La Risca I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del mojao.
Sometimes a name on a map is all you have, and this is one of those places. The Abrigo del Mojao belongs to the cluster of painted rock shelters in the high north-east of Almería, in the sierra country that spills across towards Murcia, and it sits some sixteen kilometres from the nearest village of any size. The shelters here are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition that UNESCO recognised in 1998, and their paintings are usually schematic, simple red signs and figures drawn by people who lived in this dry upland thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Abrigo del mojao write-up.
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Abrigo del mojao comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 175 km into the recorded legs you reach Letreros de los mártires. Next is back through Abrigo del mojao.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del mojao write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo del mojao, 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 → Abrigo del mojao is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mojao → Letreros de los mártires is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → back through Abrigo del mojao is 106 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del mojao → La Risca I is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.