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 Nerpio it runs 239 km to Nerpio; allow about 4 h 51 of riding. It goes by way of Las Covachicas, Cueva de las Palamas, Abrigo del milano and back through Cueva de las Palamas. 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.
A mill is a good reason to remember how much of the old Spanish countryside ran on water. Molino de las Fuentes lies close to Nerpio, in the same high valley of the Sierra de Segura, where springs rise from limestone and feed small channels that were once enough to turn a millstone. The name means the Mill of the Springs, and it is a suitable one in a landscape with plenty of them. Around the mill the land is a mixture of orchard and scrub, with poplars along the water and a sharp smell of damp earth and mint on summer evenings.
Read the complete molino de las fuentes I write-up.
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molino de las fuentes I is where the day begins. Next is Las Covachicas.
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 comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de las Palamas.
Cehegín, in the north-west of the Murcia region, is a town of two faces: a modern lower town, and an old town on a hill, with steep streets, noble houses and churches, declared a historic site. The Cueva de las Palomas, the cave of the doves, lies on the edge of the town, less than a kilometre from the centre, with the larger town of Caravaca de la Cruz about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de las Palamas. Next is Abrigo del milano.
Bullas is wine country, and the vineyards of Monastrell grapes roll over the hills around the town in the northwest of Murcia, producing robust red wines under their own denomination of origin. The Abrigo del Milano, the kite's shelter, named after the bird of prey that circles over these hills, lies in the countryside between Bullas, Mula and Pliego. It is one of the many rock shelters in Murcia with prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art, though access to many shelters is restricted to protect them, so ask locally before trying to visit.
Read the complete Abrigo del milano write-up.
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Abrigo del milano, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de las Palamas.
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Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
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back through Cueva de las Palamas sits at 127 km, about halfway. Next is back through Las Covachicas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
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back through Las Covachicas comes up about 206 km into the recorded legs. Next is molino de las fuentes I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete molino de las fuentes I write-up.
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molino de las fuentes I closes the day.
molino de las fuentes I → Las Covachicas is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Covachicas → Cueva de las Palamas is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → Abrigo del milano is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del milano → back through Cueva de las Palamas is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de las Palamas → back through Las Covachicas is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Covachicas → molino de las fuentes I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.