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 325 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 5 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo del mojao, Los Grajos and back through Abrigo del mojao. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Abrigo del mojao.
Sometimes a name on a map is all you have, and this is one of those places. The Abrigo del Mojao belongs to the cluster of painted rock shelters in the high north-east of Almería, in the sierra country that spills across towards Murcia, and it sits some sixteen kilometres from the nearest village of any size. The shelters here are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition that UNESCO recognised in 1998, and their paintings are usually schematic, simple red signs and figures drawn by people who lived in this dry upland thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Abrigo del mojao write-up.
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Abrigo del mojao comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Los Grajos.
Jackdaws gave this place its name, grajos in Spanish, and they still wheel and chatter around the limestone cliffs where prehistoric people once sheltered and painted. Los Grajos lies in the hills near Alhama de Murcia, in the valley of the Guadalentín, where dry mountains rise above a plain of orchards, greenhouses and towns. The rock shelters here hold paintings in the Levantine style, and access is generally restricted to protect them.
Read the complete Los Grajos write-up.
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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Los Grajos. Next is back through Abrigo del mojao.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del mojao write-up.
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back through Abrigo del mojao, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Ventana I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ventana I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la Ventana I. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Ventana I → Abrigo del mojao is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del mojao → Los Grajos is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Los Grajos → back through Abrigo del mojao is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abrigo del mojao → Abrigo de la Ventana I is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.