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 Puebla de Don Fadrique it runs 97 km to Puebla de Don Fadrique; allow about 3 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras, Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo and back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Deep in the Sierra de Segura in the northeast of Jaén province, close to where the Segura river is born, the Engarbo rock shelters hide a few small painted figures under limestone overhangs. They belong to the great serial UNESCO listing of Levantine rock art, prehistoric paintings found along the mountains of eastern Spain, with stylised humans and animals in red ochre that have survived thousands of years of sun, frost and goats. The shelters are modest and fragile, often fenced, and visits usually need to be arranged locally, so treat them as a reason to explore this remote corner rather than a guaranteed sight.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del Engarbo is where the day begins. Next is Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras.
The name means the stream of the foxes' spring, which is the kind of place name that only survives in country where people still walk. The ravines around Nerpio hold dozens of painted rock shelters, with Levantine and Schematic paintings of hunters, animals and symbols, and they form part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits to many of them need to be arranged through the local interpretation centre.
Read the complete Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo.
A rambla is a dry riverbed that only runs after storms, and the Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is one of many that cut into the limestone hills around Nerpio, in the remote south-western corner of Albacete. In a rock shelter above it, prehistoric people left paintings in the Levantine style, small, lively figures of people and animals, and the site is one of the many shelters around Nerpio that belong to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits are normally arranged through the village, and a guide will know which shelters are accessible and when the light is right for seeing the faded pigment.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo. Next is back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Engarbo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Engarbo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Engarbo. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Engarbo → Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras → Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Rambla de Pedro Izquierdo → back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras → Abrigo del Engarbo is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.