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 Socovos it runs 93 km to Socovos; allow about 2 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Fuente del Sabuco I, Abrigo de los Cerricos and back through Fuente del Sabuco I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The northwest of Murcia is a world away from the coastal resorts. Around Moratalla, the land rises into the mountains that form the southern edge of the Sierra de Segura, a rugged country of pine forests, deep river valleys, terraced hillsides and white villages perched on rocks. The Abrigo del Molino de Bagil is one of the many rock shelters in this area that contain prehistoric paintings, part of the UNESCO listing of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. Moratalla and its neighbours have an especially rich collection, with scenes of hunters, archers and animals painted in the Levantine style thousands of years ago. Many shelters are protected by fences, and visits are possible only with guides or by arrangement.
Read the complete Abrigo del molino de Bagil write-up.
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Abrigo del molino de Bagil is where the day begins. Next is Fuente del Sabuco I.
High in the Sierra del Taibilla, in the borderland hills between Moratalla and Nerpio, the shelters of Fuente del Sabuco hold Levantine paintings of hunters, archers and animals, part of the rich rock art of this remote corner where Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha meet. Nerpio and Moratalla between them hold a remarkable number of painted shelters, making this one of the key centres of rock art in Spain, and an interpretation centre in the village explains the paintings and organises visits. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Fuente del Sabuco I write-up.
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Fuente del Sabuco I comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de los Cerricos.
Above the Taibilla valley, Nerpio's higher ground belongs to goats, vultures and wind. The Abrigo de los Cerricos lies a couple of kilometres from the village, among the limestone crags and pine slopes of the Sierra de Taibilla, where the Spanish ibex clambers over the rocks and griffon vultures ride the thermals above. Rock shelters like this one hold some of the finest prehistoric paintings in the region, human figures and animals traced in red pigment, and they sit under World Heritage protection. Cerrico is a diminutive of cerro, a hill, so the name suggests a small rise in the ground.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cerricos write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de los Cerricos. Next is back through Fuente del Sabuco I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuente del Sabuco I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fuente del Sabuco I, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del molino de Bagil.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del molino de Bagil write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del molino de Bagil. That is the ride.
Abrigo del molino de Bagil → Fuente del Sabuco I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuente del Sabuco I → Abrigo de los Cerricos is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cerricos → back through Fuente del Sabuco I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuente del Sabuco I → Abrigo del molino de Bagil is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.