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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Nerpio it runs 166 km to Nerpio; allow about 4 h 17 of riding. The stops in between: Las Casas de las Ingenieros I, Las Covachicas and back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Concejal is the name of a rock shelter in the sierra above Nerpio, a part of southern Albacete that most Spaniards have never visited. It is numbered I in a series of shelters, and its paintings belong to the Levantine tradition that UNESCO recognised in 1998. There is a Canto Blanco shelter in the same ride, a white rock that gives it its name, and the pair give a feel of how densely the land was used by prehistoric people.
Read the complete Concejal I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Concejal I is where the day begins. Next is Las Casas de las Ingenieros I.
The name points to engineers, and in this corner of Albacete the likeliest explanation is water. The upper Segura and Taibilla valleys feed reservoirs and canals that supply towns and farms far down toward Murcia and the coast, and the people who built and maintained that system needed houses in a remote landscape. Las Casas de los Ingenieros sits some distance from Nerpio, in a quiet valley of pine, scrub and farmland, with a rock shelter nearby, and the whole area is dotted with painted shelters from the prehistoric past. Other shelters in the area carry the names of the people who first recorded them, a reminder of how recently some of these sites were noticed.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Las Casas de las Ingenieros I comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Covachicas.
The Sierra del Segura, in the far south of Albacete province, is a world of its own: deep valleys, rivers lined with poplars, terraces of olive and almond trees, and white villages that look more Andalusian than Castilian. Letur is one of the most beautiful, a village of Moorish origin built on a rock above a stream, with narrow alleys, arches and gardens watered by old irrigation channels. Las Covachicas, a group of shelters, lies in the hills nearby, between Letur, Socovos and Férez.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Covachicas. Next is back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Casas de las Ingenieros I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I, late in the day. Next is Concejal I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Concejal I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Concejal I. That is the ride.
Concejal I → Las Casas de las Ingenieros I is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Casas de las Ingenieros I → Las Covachicas is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Covachicas → back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Casas de las Ingenieros I → Concejal I is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.