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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From Nerpio it runs 309 km to Nerpio; allow about 5 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Cueva del Tio Labrador, Cueva de las Palamas and back through Cueva del Tio Labrador. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Nerpio is about as remote as it gets in southern Spain: a village in the far south-west corner of Albacete province, deep in the Sierra del Segura, close to the borders of Andalucía and Murcia. It sits in the valley of the Taibilla river, surrounded by mountains, with terraced fields, walnut trees and pine forests on the slopes. The Abrigo de la Fuente, the shelter of the spring, lies in the hills about eleven kilometres from the village.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la fuente is where the day begins. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva del Tío Labrador comes up about 89 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de las Palamas. Next is back through Cueva del Tio Labrador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Tio Labrador write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva del Tio Labrador, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la fuente. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la fuente → Cueva del Tio Labrador is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Tío Labrador → Cueva de las Palamas is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → back through Cueva del Tio Labrador is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva del Tio Labrador → Abrigo de la fuente is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.