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 373 km to Nerpio; allow about 10 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Diosa madre, Abrigo del Sabinar, Benizar V and back through Abrigo del Sabinar. 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 about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village sits in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, where Castilla-La Mancha meets Andalusia and Murcia, in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, at the end of long, winding roads. It is known for its walnut trees, which line the valleys and give the village its pride, and for its rock art: the hills around are full of shelters with prehistoric paintings, and Nerpio is one of the most important centres for Levantine art in Spain. The Abrigo de la Fuente de Montañoz is one of these shelters, near a spring in the hills above the Taibilla river.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is where the day begins. Next is Diosa madre.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
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Diosa madre comes up about 96 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Sabinar.
The Abrigo del Sabinar lies in the remote mountains of north-western Murcia, near Moratalla, where the Sierra de Segura and the Sierra del Taibilla meet, and its paintings of human figures and animals, including deer and goats, are among the finest examples of Levantine rock art in the region. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the area around Moratalla and Nerpio is particularly rich in painted shelters. The landscape is wild and rugged, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and deep river valleys, and the villages are few and far between.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Sabinar. Next is Benizar V.
Benizar is one of those places that only a handful of maps bother to name. It is a hamlet belonging to Moratalla, in the hilly north-west of the Murcia region, close to where the province meets Albacete and the first ridges of the Sierra de Segura begin. Around it, in the rock faces and gullies, archaeologists have recorded a cluster of painted shelters, and Benizar V is one in this series: a stone overhang with faint prehistoric figures, part of the Levantine rock art that runs along Spain's eastern mountains.
Read the complete Benizar V write-up.
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Benizar V, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Sabinar.
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Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Sabinar sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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back through Diosa madre comes up about 277 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I closes the day.
Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → Diosa madre is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Abrigo del Sabinar is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Sabinar → Benizar V is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Benizar V → back through Abrigo del Sabinar is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Sabinar → back through Diosa madre is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.