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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
201 km from Letur to Letur, about 3 h 27 of riding. It goes by way of Cavidad V, Cueva del Gitano and back through Cavidad V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Barbatón is a hill, and the Cerro de Barbatón a rounded bump of limestone that rises above the farmland between Letur and Socovos, in the south of Albacete. The shelter at its foot, catalogued as the Abrigo del Cerro de Barbatón, is twelve kilometres from Letur and fourteen from Socovos, which tells you right away that this is rural country with long distances between villages. The paintings in the region belong to the Levantine rock art that UNESCO recognised in 1998, and they include some of the finest and best preserved in Spain.
Read the complete Abrigo del Cerro de Barbatón write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del Cerro de Barbatón is where the day begins. Next is Cavidad V.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. This village of around sixteen hundred people sits in the Sierra del Segura, in the far south-west of Albacete province, close to the borders of Murcia and Andalusia, and the surrounding hills are dotted with shelters containing prehistoric paintings. The numbered sites around here, Cavidad V among them, are part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the Nerpio area is one of the richest concentrations of Levantine art in Spain, with hunting scenes, archers and animals painted thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Cavidad V write-up.
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Cavidad V comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva del Gitano.
Some places are remote on the map and remote in the gut, and the country around the Cueva del Gitano is both. It lies in the Sierra de Segura on the southern fringe of Albacete province, in the municipality of Nerpio, where the mountains of Albacete, Murcia, Jaén and Granada all run into one another. This is one of the richest areas for prehistoric rock art in Spain, with dozens of painted shelters along the valley of the Taibilla river and its side ravines, and the Cueva del Gitano is one of the smaller sites in that dense cluster. The art is faint, the walk can be rough, and the setting does most of the talking.
Read the complete Cueva del Gitano write-up.
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about 101 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva del Gitano. Next is back through Cavidad V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cavidad V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cavidad V, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Cerro de Barbatón.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Cerro de Barbatón write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Cerro de Barbatón. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Cerro de Barbatón → Cavidad V is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cavidad V → Cueva del Gitano is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Gitano → back through Cavidad V is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cavidad V → Abrigo del Cerro de Barbatón is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.