CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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320 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 7 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Canalejas de Abajo, Letreros de los mártires, Cañada de la Cruz and back through Letreros de los mártires. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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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Abrigo de la Ventana I is where the day begins. Next is Canalejas de Abajo.
Canalejas de Abajo is a name on the map rather than a place with a church and a bar: a scattering of farms and old cortijos in the upper valley of the Taibilla river, south of Nerpio, in the mountains where Albacete, Jaén and Granada meet. The Sierra de Segura and the Sierra de las Cabras rise all around, high limestone country cut by deep valleys, and the region is known among archaeologists for its painted rock shelters. The Abrigo del Sabinar and others along the same valley hold some of the most important prehistoric paintings of the Spanish south east, drawn on the soft overhangs that the river and the wind have shaped.
Read the complete Canalejas de Abajo write-up.
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Canalejas de Abajo comes up 33 km in. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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66 km in you reach Letreros de los mártires. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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Cañada de la Cruz, about halfway. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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back through Letreros de los mártires sits at 131 km, about halfway. Next is back through Canalejas de Abajo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Canalejas de Abajo write-up.
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back through Canalejas de Abajo comes up 164 km in. Next is Abrigo de la Ventana I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ventana I write-up.
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Abrigo de la Ventana I closes the day.
Abrigo de la Ventana I → Canalejas de Abajo is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Canalejas de Abajo → Letreros de los mártires is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → Cañada de la Cruz is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → back through Letreros de los mártires is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros de los mártires → back through Canalejas de Abajo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Canalejas de Abajo → Abrigo de la Ventana I is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.