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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398 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 7 h 16 of riding. The stops in between: Gabar, Cueva de la Plata and back through Gabar. 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 Gabar.
High in the north of Almería province, far from the beaches most people associate with the name, the Sierra de María rises in grey limestone above a plateau of almond orchards and cereal fields. Gabar is a point in the hills between the villages of María and Vélez-Blanco, part of a cluster of rock-art shelters in the Los Vélez district. This corner of Spain is famous for one painted figure in particular: the Indalo, a little stick man holding an arc over his head, found in the Cueva de los Letreros just outside Vélez-Blanco. It has become the emblem of the whole province, painted on doors and sold as a lucky charm, which is a remarkable career for a prehistoric doodle.
Read the complete Gabar write-up.
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Gabar comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Plata.
Aledo is a tiny village on a rocky spur in the hills of Murcia, a place that punches well above its weight in history. In the eleventh century, it was a fortress on the frontier between Christian Castile and the Muslim taifa kingdoms, and the siege of Aledo in 1088 was a major episode in the struggle for the peninsula. A tower still stands above the village. The Cueva de la Plata, the silver cave, lies in the hills nearby, between Aledo, Totana and Alhama de Murcia.
Read the complete Cueva de la Plata write-up.
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about 199 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Plata. Next is back through Gabar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gabar write-up.
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back through Gabar, 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 → Gabar is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gabar → Cueva de la Plata is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Plata → back through Gabar is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gabar → Abrigo de la Hoz is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.