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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Nerpio it runs 266 km to Nerpio; allow about 4 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of 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.
Shelters collect names the way villages collect nicknames. The Abrigo del Ídolo lies barely a kilometre and a half from Nerpio, and it carries the name of a figure that someone once thought looked like an idol, which tells you less about the figure than about the person who named it. Across the district you will find shelters called after mills, springs, farms and the families who worked them, and the whole collection reads like a gazetteer of the people who walked these hills before the archaeologists arrived.
Read the complete Abrigo del Idolo write-up.
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Abrigo del Ídolo 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 del Idolo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Idolo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Idolo. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Ídolo → 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 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de las Palamas → Abrigo del Idolo is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.