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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74 km from Socovos to Socovos, about 2 h 13 of riding. The stops in between: La Risca I, Abrigo de la Ventana I and back through La Risca I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Solana del molinico write-up.
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Solana del molinico is where the day begins. 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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La Risca I comes up about 19 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 36 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Ventana I. 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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back through La Risca I, late in the day. Next is Solana del molinico.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Solana del molinico write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Solana del molinico. That is the ride.
Solana del molinico → La Risca I is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Risca I → Abrigo de la Ventana I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ventana I → back through La Risca I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Risca I → Solana del molinico is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.