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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265 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 4 h 24 of riding. On the way it passes Cueva de las Palamas, Cueva del Tio Labrador 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.
Nerpio is a small village that looks like it has been there for ever, with white houses, a church, a few bars and a plaza where old men sit in the sun, and it is worth getting to know before heading out to the shelters. Its position on a high plateau, at around a thousand metres, makes it cool in summer and cold in winter, and the village has a long tradition of mountain farming: cereals, almonds, sheep and, in the valley bottoms, fruit trees. The Abrigos de los Ídolos are under a kilometre and a half from the plaza.
Read the complete Abriga de los Idolos write-up.
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Abriga de los Idolos 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 66 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva del Tio Labrador.
Vélez-Rubio is a larger and busier place than its neighbour Vélez-Blanco, with seven thousand people, a lively main street, and a church that is a surprise in a town this size. The Church of the Encarnación, begun in the eighteenth century, has twin towers and a massive Baroque façade, usually described as the largest Baroque church in Almería, and its bulk dominates the roofs. It is a good place to start before riding up toward the mountains, because the fuel stations here are the nearest reliable ones for a long way.
Read the complete Cueva del Tio Labrador write-up.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva del Tio Labrador. 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 Abriga de los Idolos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abriga de los Idolos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abriga de los Idolos. That is the ride.
Abriga de los Idolos → Cueva de las Palamas is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → Cueva del Tio Labrador is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Tío Labrador → back through Cueva de las Palamas is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de las Palamas → Abriga de los Idolos is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.