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 275 km to Nerpio; allow about 6 h 34 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la fuente, Fuensanta II, Solana del molinico and back through Fuensanta II. 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.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as Spain gets. The village sits in the southern corner of the province of Albacete, where the Sierra de Segura and the mountains of Murcia and Granada meet, in a high valley cut by the Taibilla river. Around it, in the ravines and rock walls, are some of the most important prehistoric painted shelters in the country, and the Abrigo de Jutia is one of them. The Nerpio sites belong to the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and several of them, including the famous shelters of the Solana de las Covachas, show hunters, archers and animals painted in the Levantine style. Guided visits are organised from the village; ask locally about access and opening times, because the sites are protected and not all are open.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
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Albrigo de Jutia I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Nerpio is about as remote as it gets in southern Spain: a village in the far south-west corner of Albacete province, deep in the Sierra del Segura, close to the borders of Andalucía and Murcia. It sits in the valley of the Taibilla river, surrounded by mountains, with terraced fields, walnut trees and pine forests on the slopes. The Abrigo de la Fuente, the shelter of the spring, lies in the hills about eleven kilometres from the village.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fuensanta II.
Fuensanta II is the sort of name only an archaeologist could love, a numbered rock shelter in the hills of northwest Murcia where prehistoric painters left a handful of figures on the stone. It is one of the hundreds of sites grouped under UNESCO's listing of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Moratalla area is unusually rich in them. The paintings are small, faint to the untrained eye and protected, so the real value of coming is to understand the landscape that drew people here thousands of years ago: springs, shelter and game in rough, broken country.
Read the complete Fuensanta II write-up.
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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Fuensanta II. 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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Solana del molinico, about halfway. Next is back through Fuensanta II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuensanta II write-up.
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back through Fuensanta II sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente comes up about 226 km into the recorded legs. Next is Albrigo de Jutia I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Albrigo de Jutia I closes the day.
Albrigo de Jutia I → Abrigo de la fuente is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → Fuensanta II is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuensanta II → Solana del molinico is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Solana del molinico → back through Fuensanta II is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuensanta II → back through Abrigo de la fuente is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente → Albrigo de Jutia I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.