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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191 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 4 h 04 of riding. It goes by way of Cavidad V, La Risca I, Cueva de las Palamas and back through La Risca I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The name means the stream of the foxes' spring, which is the kind of place name that only survives in country where people still walk. The ravines around Nerpio hold dozens of painted rock shelters, with Levantine and Schematic paintings of hunters, animals and symbols, and they form part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Visits to many of them need to be arranged through the local interpretation centre.
Read the complete Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras is where the day begins. Next is Cavidad V.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. This village of around sixteen hundred people sits in the Sierra del Segura, in the far south-west of Albacete province, close to the borders of Murcia and Andalusia, and the surrounding hills are dotted with shelters containing prehistoric paintings. The numbered sites around here, Cavidad V among them, are part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin, and the Nerpio area is one of the richest concentrations of Levantine art in Spain, with hunting scenes, archers and animals painted thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Cavidad V write-up.
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Cavidad V comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Risca I.
Moratalla is a hill town that spills down a slope beneath its castle in the north-west of Murcia, a maze of steep, narrow streets, whitewashed houses and stairways. Around it lies a vast municipality of mountains, forests and valleys, and in the valley of Benizar, near the Río Benamor, is La Risca, a group of painted shelters that form part of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings include human figures and animals, typical of the Levantine style, small and faded but full of life.
Read the complete La Risca I write-up.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach La Risca I. Next is Cueva de las Palamas.
Cehegín, in the north-west of the Murcia region, is a town of two faces: a modern lower town, and an old town on a hill, with steep streets, noble houses and churches, declared a historic site. The Cueva de las Palomas, the cave of the doves, lies on the edge of the town, less than a kilometre from the centre, with the larger town of Caravaca de la Cruz about five kilometres away.
Read the complete Cueva de las Palamas write-up.
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Cueva de las Palamas, about halfway. Next is back through La Risca I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Risca I write-up.
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back through La Risca I sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cavidad V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cavidad V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cavidad V comes up about 167 km into the recorded legs. Next is Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras closes the day.
Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras → Cavidad V is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cavidad V → La Risca I is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Risca I → Cueva de las Palamas is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de las Palamas → back through La Risca I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Risca I → back through Cavidad V is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cavidad V → Arroyo de la fuente de las Zorras is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.