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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88 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 2 h 10 of riding. On the way it passes Fuente del Sabuco I, Abrigo del molino de Bagil 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 line favours views over speed.
Nerpio sits on a high plateau of the Sierra del Segura, in the south-west corner of Albacete province, at about a thousand metres above the sea, and the climate matches the height: hot dry summers, cold nights, and winters when snow arrives early. The Abrigo del Molino de Juan Basura lies less than two kilometres from the village in the valley of the Taibilla, and it is one of the sites that make Nerpio a name among specialists. In few other places in Spain can you find so many painted shelters within a short walk of a single village.
Read the complete Abrigo del molino Juan Basura o molina Cip write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo del molino Juan Basura o molina Cip 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 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del molino de Bagil.
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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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del molino de Bagil. 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 Juan Basura o molina Cip.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del molino Juan Basura o molina Cip write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del molino Juan Basura o molina Cip. That is the ride.
Abrigo del molino Juan Basura o molina Cip → Fuente del Sabuco I is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.
Abrigo del molino de Bagil → back through Fuente del Sabuco I is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuente del Sabuco I → Abrigo del molino Juan Basura o molina Cip is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.