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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347 km from Puebla de Don Fadrique to Puebla de Don Fadrique, about 6 h 22 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de los Gavilanes, Abrigo de la Ventana I and back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de los Gavilanes.
Gavilanes means sparrowhawks, and the name fits a shelter high on a limestone face above the dry country where Murcia meets Almería. The Abrigo de los Gavilanes lies in the hills west of Lorca, in an area scattered with painted shelters such as the Collado de la Cruz and Los Grajos, the jackdaws, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The figures are small, red and schematic, painted by communities who farmed and herded here thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Gavilanes write-up.
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Abrigo de los Gavilanes comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Ventana I.
High in the Sierra de Segura, where Albacete, Murcia and Jaén meet, the Taibilla river cuts a deep valley through limestone mountains, and the cliffs and shelters along its banks hide some of the finest prehistoric paintings in Spain. The Abrigo de la Ventana, the window shelter, is one of them, near the village of Nerpio, and it is part of the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ventana I write-up.
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about 173 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Ventana I. Next is back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Gavilanes write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes, late in the day. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Letreros de los mártires. That is the ride.
Letreros de los mártires → Abrigo de los Gavilanes is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Gavilanes → Abrigo de la Ventana I is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ventana I → back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Gavilanes → Letreros de los mártires is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.