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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266 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 4 h 25 of riding. On the way it passes Cueva de las Palamas, Cueva del Tio Labrador and back through Cueva de las Palamas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Above the Taibilla valley, Nerpio's higher ground belongs to goats, vultures and wind. The Abrigo de los Cerricos lies a couple of kilometres from the village, among the limestone crags and pine slopes of the Sierra de Taibilla, where the Spanish ibex clambers over the rocks and griffon vultures ride the thermals above. Rock shelters like this one hold some of the finest prehistoric paintings in the region, human figures and animals traced in red pigment, and they sit under World Heritage protection. Cerrico is a diminutive of cerro, a hill, so the name suggests a small rise in the ground.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cerricos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Cerricos is where the day begins. 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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Cueva de las Palamas comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva del Tio Labrador.
Vélez-Rubio is a larger and busier place than its neighbour Vélez-Blanco, with seven thousand people, a lively main street, and a church that is a surprise in a town this size. The Church of the Encarnación, begun in the eighteenth century, has twin towers and a massive Baroque façade, usually described as the largest Baroque church in Almería, and its bulk dominates the roofs. It is a good place to start before riding up toward the mountains, because the fuel stations here are the nearest reliable ones for a long way.
Read the complete Cueva del Tio Labrador write-up.
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about 134 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva del Tio Labrador. Next is back through Cueva de las Palamas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de las Palamas, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de los Cerricos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cerricos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de los Cerricos. That is the ride.
Abrigo de los Cerricos → Cueva de las Palamas is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → Cueva del Tio Labrador is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Tío Labrador → back through Cueva de las Palamas is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de las Palamas → Abrigo de los Cerricos is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.