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 426 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 10 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes Albrigo de Jutia I, Tenada de Cueva moreno, Guijarral and back through Tenada de Cueva moreno. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Albrigo de Jutia I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as Spain gets. The village sits in the southern corner of the province of Albacete, where the Sierra de Segura and the mountains of Murcia and Granada meet, in a high valley cut by the Taibilla river. Around it, in the ravines and rock walls, are some of the most important prehistoric painted shelters in the country, and the Abrigo de Jutia is one of them. The Nerpio sites belong to the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and several of them, including the famous shelters of the Solana de las Covachas, show hunters, archers and animals painted in the Levantine style. Guided visits are organised from the village; ask locally about access and opening times, because the sites are protected and not all are open.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
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Albrigo de Jutia I comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tenada de Cueva moreno.
A tenada is a farm shed for livestock, the kind of low stone building that marks old transhumance routes, and the cave that goes with it is a local hollow in the limestone near Letur and Socovos in the south of Albacete province. This is the dry, hilly outer edge of the Sierra del Segura, where the pine woods give way to open scrub and cereal fields, and the horizon is a series of pale ridges. The label also links to the Letreros de los Mártires, a set of painted marks in a nearby shelter, which hints at the density of prehistoric art in this district.
Read the complete Tenada de Cueva moreno write-up.
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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach Tenada de Cueva moreno. Next is Guijarral.
Spain's largest protected area is the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, and it spreads across a long stretch of wooded mountains in Jaén and Albacete. The Guijarral lies on its northern edge, in country close to Yeste, Segura de la Sierra and Orcera, where black pines and holm oaks cover steep slopes and rivers cut gorges between. Here, among rock walls, shelters preserve paintings, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998, and the sites of the area, such as Zona 1 and the Collado de la Cruz, tell of hunting peoples who lived in these mountains long ago.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
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Guijarral, about halfway. Next is back through Tenada de Cueva moreno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tenada de Cueva moreno write-up.
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back through Tenada de Cueva moreno sits at 135 km, about halfway. Next is back through Albrigo de Jutia I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Albrigo de Jutia I comes up about 373 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Abrigo de la fuente closes the day.
Abrigo de la fuente → Albrigo de Jutia I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albrigo de Jutia I → Tenada de Cueva moreno is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tenada de Cueva moreno → Guijarral is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guijarral → back through Tenada de Cueva moreno is 148 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tenada de Cueva moreno → back through Albrigo de Jutia I is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Albrigo de Jutia I → Abrigo de la fuente is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.