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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123 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 4 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de las Cañadas I, molino de las fuentes I and back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Nerpio sits high in the Sierra del Segura, in the southwest of Albacete, about eleven hundred metres up, and it feels like an outpost of the Andalusian mountains that happens to be in Castile-La Mancha. The village is small, with roughly sixteen hundred people, and the countryside around is a deep, rumpled landscape of pine forest, rock outcrops and tiny cultivated valleys. More than forty rock shelters with paintings have been found in the area, making Nerpio one of the richest places for prehistoric art in Spain, with paintings in red showing animals, hunters and abstract signs.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas I.
High up in the Sierra del Segura, where the province of Albacete meets Granada and Jaén, the village of Nerpio sits at around eleven hundred metres in a country of oak, pine and bare limestone. The Abrigo de las Cañadas, a rock shelter, lies about twelve kilometres from the village among its dry gullies, in one of the most thinly settled corners of Castilla-La Mancha.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas I write-up.
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Abrigo de las Cañadas I comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is molino de las fuentes I.
A mill is a good reason to remember how much of the old Spanish countryside ran on water. Molino de las Fuentes lies close to Nerpio, in the same high valley of the Sierra de Segura, where springs rise from limestone and feed small channels that were once enough to turn a millstone. The name means the Mill of the Springs, and it is a suitable one in a landscape with plenty of them. Around the mill the land is a mixture of orchard and scrub, with poplars along the water and a sharp smell of damp earth and mint on summer evenings.
Read the complete molino de las fuentes I write-up.
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about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach molino de las fuentes I. Next is back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo → Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañadas I → molino de las fuentes I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molino de las fuentes I → back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I → Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.