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 268 km to Nerpio; allow about 4 h 29 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Covachos, the little caves, are a short ride from Nerpio, a mountain village of about sixteen hundred people in the south-west of Albacete province, in the headwaters of the Segura river. The shelter is one of dozens in this district, which has one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric painting in Spain, in both the Levantine style and the later schematic one. UNESCO protects the Levantine sites as part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. What makes Nerpio special is that the paintings are scattered through a living landscape of farms, springs and sheep tracks, so you may find yourself looking at a thousands-year-old figure with a shepherd's dog watching from the next rock.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Covachos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Covachos 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 68 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 135 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 Covachos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Covachos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de los Covachos. That is the ride.
Abrigo de los Covachos → Cueva de las Palamas is 68 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 Covachos is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.