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 105 km to Nerpio; allow about 2 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador, Abrigo de la fuente and back through friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador. 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 sabina is the Spanish juniper, a tough, aromatic tree that grows on the high limestone plateaus of the interior, and the Abrigo de los Sabinares, also called the Ventana de los E, lies in a country where junipers cover the slopes in dark green clumps. The shelter sits eight kilometres from Nerpio, in the high basin of the Sierra del Segura, and it is one of the cluster of painted rocks that UNESCO listed in 1998 as part of the Mediterranean arc. Its neighbours on the route, the Cueva de los Pucheros and the Abrigo de la Fuente, are in the same district.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E write-up.
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Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E is where the day begins. Next is friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador.
Nerpio sits at about a thousand metres in the Sierra de Segura foothills, at the far south-west corner of Albacete province, in a high valley that feels closer to Andalusia than to La Mancha. It is an out-of-the-way place, with orchards of apples, almond and walnut trees in the valley bottoms and bare limestone peaks above. The area is famous among specialists for its rock art: dozens of shelters in the surrounding gorges hold paintings of the Levantine and Schematic styles, and they are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998. The Friso de los Gitanos, the Gypsies' Frieze, is one of the better known, and the name tells you that locals have been looking at it for a long time.
Read the complete friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador write-up.
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friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Nerpio is about as remote as it gets in southern Spain: a village in the far south-west corner of Albacete province, deep in the Sierra del Segura, close to the borders of Andalucía and Murcia. It sits in the valley of the Taibilla river, surrounded by mountains, with terraced fields, walnut trees and pine forests on the slopes. The Abrigo de la Fuente, the shelter of the spring, lies in the hills about eleven kilometres from the village.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente. Next is back through friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E. That is the ride.
Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E → friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador → Abrigo de la fuente is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → back through friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador → Abrigo de los Sabinares o Ventana de los E is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.