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 347 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 7 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes La Risca I, Abrigo del Pozo III, Abrigo de los Cortijos and Cueva del Peliciego. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
High above the Segura headwaters, the village of Nerpio feels more like a mountain outpost than part of southern Spain. It lies on the edge of the Sierra de Alcaraz and the Sierra de Segura, well over a thousand metres up, and the climate is the sort that sends locals indoors in January and has snow arriving early. The Abrigo de la Cornisa belongs to a cluster of painted shelters in the district, and the Nerpio area as a whole is known for having one of the richest groups of rock paintings in the country.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Cornisa write-up.
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Abrigo de la Cornisa 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 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Pozo III.
The Segura river cuts through the north-west of Murcia in a series of gorges and green oases, and near Calasparra its banks hold a surprising treasure. The Abrigo del Pozo shelters, of which this is the third, contain prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, small human and animal figures in red ochre that form part of the World Heritage rock art of the Mediterranean arc. The shelters are fragile and generally protected, often visited only with a guide, so check with the local tourist office before you count on seeing them.
Read the complete Abrigo del Pozo III write-up.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Pozo III. Next is Abrigo de los Cortijos.
Hellín is a town in the south-east of Albacete province, on the edge of the dry plains of La Mancha, where the landscape breaks into hills and ravines on its way down to the Segura river. Its old town climbs a hill crowned by a castle, and its streets are lined with houses from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Abrigo de los Cortijos lies in the hills about nine kilometres from the town, toward Albatana and Tobarra.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Cortijos, about halfway. Next is Cueva del Peliciego.
Jumilla is wine. This town in the north of Murcia sits in a high, dry valley surrounded by bare mountains, and its vineyards, planted with the Monastrell grape, produce powerful red wines under the Jumilla designation of origin, one of the oldest in Spain. The Cueva del Peliciego, a rock shelter in the hills near the town, holds prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, and it has been known since the early twentieth century, when it was one of the first rock art sites studied in the region.
Read the complete Cueva del Peliciego write-up.
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Cueva del Peliciego sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de los Cortijos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cortijos write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Cortijos comes up about 211 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo del Pozo III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Pozo III write-up.
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about 265 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo del Pozo III. 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 Abrigo de la Cornisa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Cornisa write-up.
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The route ends here after 347 km.
Abrigo de la Cornisa → La Risca I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Risca I → Abrigo del Pozo III is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Pozo III → Abrigo de los Cortijos is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cortijos → Cueva del Peliciego is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Peliciego → back through Abrigo de los Cortijos is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Cortijos → back through Abrigo del Pozo III is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Pozo III → back through La Risca I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Risca I → Abrigo de la Cornisa is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.