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 Letur it runs 295 km to Letur; allow about 7 h 44 of riding. The stops in between: Cueva del Gitano, Abrigo de las Cañadas I, Letreros de los mártires and back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Sierra del Segura, in the far south of Albacete province, is a world of its own: deep valleys, rivers lined with poplars, terraces of olive and almond trees, and white villages that look more Andalusian than Castilian. Letur is one of the most beautiful, a village of Moorish origin built on a rock above a stream, with narrow alleys, arches and gardens watered by old irrigation channels. Las Covachicas, a group of shelters, lies in the hills nearby, between Letur, Socovos and Férez.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
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Las Covachicas is where the day begins. Next is Cueva del Gitano.
Some places are remote on the map and remote in the gut, and the country around the Cueva del Gitano is both. It lies in the Sierra de Segura on the southern fringe of Albacete province, in the municipality of Nerpio, where the mountains of Albacete, Murcia, Jaén and Granada all run into one another. This is one of the richest areas for prehistoric rock art in Spain, with dozens of painted shelters along the valley of the Taibilla river and its side ravines, and the Cueva del Gitano is one of the smaller sites in that dense cluster. The art is faint, the walk can be rough, and the setting does most of the talking.
Read the complete Cueva del Gitano write-up.
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Cueva del Gitano comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas I.
High up in the Sierra del Segura, where the province of Albacete meets Granada and Jaén, the village of Nerpio sits at around eleven hundred metres in a country of oak, pine and bare limestone. The Abrigo de las Cañadas, a rock shelter, lies about twelve kilometres from the village among its dry gullies, in one of the most thinly settled corners of Castilla-La Mancha.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas I write-up.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de las Cañadas I. 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.
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Letreros de los mártires, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas I write-up.
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back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva del Gitano.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Gitano write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva del Gitano comes up about 242 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Covachicas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Las Covachicas closes the day.
Las Covachicas → Cueva del Gitano is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Gitano → Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañadas I → Letreros de los mártires is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I → back through Cueva del Gitano is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva del Gitano → Las Covachicas is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.