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 139 km to Nerpio; allow about 3 h 28 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo de la fuente, Abrigo de la Ventana I and back through Abrigo de la fuente. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Nerpio, in the south-east corner of Albacete province, sits at the end of a long run of mountain road, and the Abrigo de la Hoz belongs to the area's rich group of painted shelters. The name means the shelter of the gorge, hoz being the old Spanish word for a narrow river canyon, and the cliffs near the Taibilla river do indeed have a gorge-like feel. The paintings, in red, show the typical cast of animals and human figures, and they are part of the UNESCO listing for the rock art of the Mediterranean basin.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Hoz write-up.
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Abrigo de la Hoz is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
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.
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Abrigo de la fuente comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Ventana I.
High in the Sierra de Segura, where Albacete, Murcia and Jaén meet, the Taibilla river cuts a deep valley through limestone mountains, and the cliffs and shelters along its banks hide some of the finest prehistoric paintings in Spain. The Abrigo de la Ventana, the window shelter, is one of them, near the village of Nerpio, and it is part of the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ventana I write-up.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Ventana I. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Hoz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Hoz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la Hoz. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Hoz → Abrigo de la fuente is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → Abrigo de la Ventana I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ventana I → back through Abrigo de la fuente is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente → Abrigo de la Hoz is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.