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 Nerpio it runs 100 km to Nerpio; allow about 3 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Molino de Capel I, Solana del molinico and back through Molino de Capel I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Abrigo del Sabinar lies in the remote mountains of north-western Murcia, near Moratalla, where the Sierra de Segura and the Sierra del Taibilla meet, and its paintings of human figures and animals, including deer and goats, are among the finest examples of Levantine rock art in the region. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the area around Moratalla and Nerpio is particularly rich in painted shelters. The landscape is wild and rugged, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and deep river valleys, and the villages are few and far between.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
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Abrigo del Sabinar is where the day begins. Next is Molino de Capel I.
Moratalla stands at the north-west corner of Murcia like a lookout post, and the highlands behind it feel far from the coast. The town is crowned by a medieval castle and its streets run down a steep hillside, and the municipality covers a huge area of pine forest, ravines and rock shelters, many of them holding prehistoric paintings that now sit on the World Heritage list. The Molino de Capel, a watermill name from a rural spot in the hills near the Albacete border, belongs to that scattered countryside, where old farms, mills and caves sit in a landscape of rosemary, thyme and holm oak.
Read the complete Molino de Capel I write-up.
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Molino de Capel I comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Solana del molinico.
Socovos is the sort of village you only find by getting a little lost: a cluster of white houses below a ruined castle in the far southeast of Albacete province, where the plains of La Mancha give way to the tangled ridges of the Sierra de Segura. Solana del Molinico, close by, is one of the rock-art shelters in this corner of Spain that belong to the UNESCO listing for Levantine rock art. The word solana means a sun-facing slope, and many of these painted overhangs face south, catching the warmth on winter days just as they must have done when hunters and gatherers sheltered here.
Read the complete Solana del molinico write-up.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Solana del molinico. Next is back through Molino de Capel I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molino de Capel I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Molino de Capel I, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Sabinar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Sabinar. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Sabinar → Molino de Capel I is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Molino de Capel I → Solana del molinico is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Solana del molinico → back through Molino de Capel I is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Molino de Capel I → Abrigo del Sabinar is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.