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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A 390 km round trip from Puebla de Don Fadrique - roughly 10 h 01 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo, La Risca I, molino de las fuentes I and Las Cazuelas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Cold water is a rare luxury in southern Spain, and a stream called Río Frío promises exactly that. It is a land of pine forests, limestone crags, deep river gorges and tiny villages, and the painted rock shelters scattered through these hills are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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Río frío is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
A rambla is a dry riverbed that only runs after storms, and the Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is one of many that cut into the limestone hills around Nerpio, in the remote south-western corner of Albacete. In a rock shelter above it, prehistoric people left paintings in the Levantine style, small, lively figures of people and animals, and the site is one of the many shelters around Nerpio that belong to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits are normally arranged through the village, and a guide will know which shelters are accessible and when the light is right for seeing the faded pigment.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
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Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Risca I.
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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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach La Risca I. Next is molino de las fuentes I.
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, about halfway. Next is Las Cazuelas.
Moratalla is the kind of hill town that looks as though it was poured down a slope: white houses tumbling below a castle tower, narrow lanes too steep for comfort, church bells echoing off the hills. Ten kilometres out, in the rugged country of north-west Murcia, the shelter of Las Cazuelas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the region's contribution to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings are fragile and protected, and access is usually by guided visit, arranged in Moratalla or through the regional authorities.
Read the complete Las Cazuelas write-up.
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Las Cazuelas sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through 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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back through molino de las fuentes I comes up about 236 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through La Risca I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Risca I write-up.
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about 293 km into the recorded legs you reach back through La Risca I. Next is back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo, late in the day. Next is Río frío.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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The route ends here after 390 km.
Río frío → Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → La Risca I is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Risca I → molino de las fuentes I is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molino de las fuentes I → Las Cazuelas is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Cazuelas → back through molino de las fuentes I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molino de las fuentes I → back through La Risca I is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Risca I → back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → Río frío is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.