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 493 km to Nerpio; allow about 13 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Diosa madre, Tenada de Cueva moreno, Cueva del Niño 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.
101 km on Abrigo de la Llagosa → Diosa madre.
The upper Segura valley, south of Nerpio, is a world of cliffs and reservoirs, and the place called La Llagosa lies in the middle of it. This is the Sierra de Segura, a limestone massif that forms part of one of Spain's biggest natural parks, the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, a UNESCO biosphere reserve. It is a land of pine forest and rocky ridges, where the Segura and its tributaries cut deep valleys, and the landscape is dotted with small villages like Yeste and Letur, whose white houses cluster on rocky spurs.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Llagosa write-up.
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Abrigo de la Llagosa 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.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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Diosa madre comes up about 101 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 180 km into the recorded legs you reach Tenada de Cueva moreno. Next is Cueva del Niño.
Ayna is a village of white houses clinging to the walls of a deep gorge carved by the Mundo river, in the Sierra de Alcaraz in the southwest of Albacete province. Its setting is so dramatic that it is sometimes called the Little Switzerland of La Mancha, and it was the backdrop for the cult Spanish film Amanece, que no es poco, a surreal comedy shot here in the late 1980s. A few kilometres away, in a rocky ravine, the Cueva del Niño holds something rare for this part of Spain: Palaeolithic paintings of deer, ibex and horses, much older than the Levantine figures painted later on the same walls. It is part of the UNESCO listing of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, and access is restricted to protect the paintings.
Read the complete Cueva del Niño write-up.
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Cueva del Niño, 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 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Diosa madre comes up about 391 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Llagosa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Llagosa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la Llagosa closes the day.
Abrigo de la Llagosa → Diosa madre is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Tenada de Cueva moreno is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tenada de Cueva moreno → Cueva del Niño is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Niño → back through Tenada de Cueva moreno is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tenada de Cueva moreno → back through Diosa madre is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → Abrigo de la Llagosa is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.