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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228 km from Puebla de Don Fadrique to Puebla de Don Fadrique, about 6 h 17 of riding. It goes by way of Los Sacristanes, Fuensanta II, Solana del molinico and back through Fuensanta II. 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.
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.
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Río frío is where the day begins. Next is Los Sacristanes.
Los Sacristanes is a name given to a group of painted shelters in the empty uplands near Nerpio, in the south-western corner of Albacete province. It sits on the high, pine-covered ground between the Taibilla valley and the headwaters of the Segura, a place so thinly populated that the nearest town of any size is the better part of an hour away. The paintings here, like those across this region, belong to the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art, and they are best seen with a local guide from Nerpio's interpretation centre.
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Los Sacristanes comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fuensanta II.
Fuensanta II is the sort of name only an archaeologist could love, a numbered rock shelter in the hills of northwest Murcia where prehistoric painters left a handful of figures on the stone. It is one of the hundreds of sites grouped under UNESCO's listing of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Moratalla area is unusually rich in them. The paintings are small, faint to the untrained eye and protected, so the real value of coming is to understand the landscape that drew people here thousands of years ago: springs, shelter and game in rough, broken country.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Fuensanta II. Next is Solana del molinico.
Socovos is the sort of village you only find by getting a little lost: a cluster of white houses below a ruined castle in the far southeast of Albacete province, where the plains of La Mancha give way to the tangled ridges of the Sierra de Segura. Solana del Molinico, close by, is one of the rock-art shelters in this corner of Spain that belong to the UNESCO listing for Levantine rock art. The word solana means a sun-facing slope, and many of these painted overhangs face south, catching the warmth on winter days just as they must have done when hunters and gatherers sheltered here.
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Solana del molinico, about halfway. Next is back through Fuensanta II.
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Read the complete Fuensanta II write-up.
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back through Fuensanta II sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Los Sacristanes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Sacristanes write-up.
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back through Los Sacristanes comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is Río frío.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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Río frío closes the day.
Río frío → Los Sacristanes is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Sacristanes → Fuensanta II is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuensanta II → Solana del molinico is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Solana del molinico → back through Fuensanta II is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuensanta II → back through Los Sacristanes is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Los Sacristanes → Río frío is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.