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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379 km from Vélez-Blanco to Vélez-Blanco, about 5 h 22 of riding. On the way it passes Cueva de las Palamas, Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo and back through Cueva de las Palamas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
A tejera is a tile works, a kiln where roof tiles were baked from local clay, and the name is common across the dry south-east of Spain. The Tejera on your map is near Vélez-Blanco, about two kilometres from the village, in the country that falls away from the Sierra María towards the plain, where red soil, almond terraces and clumps of pine and juniper make up the view.
Read the complete Tejera write-up.
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Tejera is where the day begins. 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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Cueva de las Palamas comes up about 114 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 188 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo. Next is back through Cueva de las Palamas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de las Palamas, late in the day. Next is Tejera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tejera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tejera. That is the ride.
Tejera → Cueva de las Palamas is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de las Palamas → Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → back through Cueva de las Palamas is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de las Palamas → Tejera is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.