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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A 99 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 2 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz, Abrigo de la fuente and back through Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Far inland in the south-east of Spain, in the folded highlands of the Sierra de Segura, there is a small village called Nerpio, and around it cliffs hold some of the most remarkable prehistoric paintings in Europe. Jutia is one of several shelters here, the overhangs where hunter-gatherers painted red figures of animals and people thousands of years ago. This is Levantine rock art, a tradition that runs along the Mediterranean side of the Iberian peninsula and is protected as a World Heritage group. Many of the shelters are fenced and some are reached only on foot, so check access before you go.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Albrigo de Jutia II is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz.
The Collado de la Cruz is a saddle in the wild Sierra del Segura, in the south-west corner of Albacete province, and the shelter here belongs to one of the richest regions of prehistoric painting in Spain. Nerpio, the village about three and a half kilometres away, sits at over a thousand metres and is surrounded by dozens of rock-art sites, in both the Levantine style and the later schematic style, which uses simple dots, lines and stick-like figures. The Levantine paintings are protected by UNESCO as part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz write-up.
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Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente. Next is back through Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz, late in the day. Next is Albrigo de Jutia II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Albrigo de Jutia II. That is the ride.
Albrigo de Jutia II → Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz → Abrigo de la fuente is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → back through Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz → Albrigo de Jutia II is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.