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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347 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 6 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Gabar, Cueva de las Palamas and back through Gabar. 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.
Segura de la Sierra is a village that looks like a stage set, and it is real. It sits on a conical hill above the olive groves of the upper Guadalimar valley, crowned by a castle, with narrow lanes of whitewashed houses winding up to the walls, and from the top the view takes in miles of olives, pine-covered ridges and distant sierras. The castle was a stronghold of the Order of Santiago, the knightly order that held much of this frontier in the Middle Ages. It has a Moorish bath house, restored and open to the public, a bullring built into the rock, and a medieval keep.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Viñuela write-up.
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Abrigo de la Viñuela 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 106 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de las Palamas.
Cehegín, in the north-west of the Murcia region, is a town of two faces: a modern lower town, and an old town on a hill, with steep streets, noble houses and churches, declared a historic site. The Cueva de las Palomas, the cave of the doves, lies on the edge of the town, less than a kilometre from the centre, with the larger town of Caravaca de la Cruz about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
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about 173 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de las Palamas. 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 Viñuela.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Viñuela write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la Viñuela. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Viñuela → Gabar is 106 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gabar → Cueva de las Palamas is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → back through Gabar is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gabar → Abrigo de la Viñuela is 106 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.