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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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A 238 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 4 h 05 in the saddle. The stops in between: molino de las fuentes I, Abrigo del Sabinar and back through molino de las fuentes I. 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.
A cortijo is a farm in the Andalusian style, a cluster of whitewashed buildings around a yard, and the one named for La Rosa stands in the mountains of the Sierra del Segura, where Albacete, Murcia and Jaén meet. The shelter nearby, one of the many in the Nerpio district, lies about twelve kilometres from the village of Nerpio and a good deal farther from anything else. It carries paintings of the old Levantine kind, protected by UNESCO as part of the Mediterranean rock art of Spain, and the ride links it with another site at Benizar, in the Moratalla district across the border in Murcia.
Read the complete Cortijo de la Rosa write-up.
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Cortijo de la Rosa is where the day begins. Next is molino de las fuentes I.
A mill is a good reason to remember how much of the old Spanish countryside ran on water. Molino de las Fuentes lies close to Nerpio, in the same high valley of the Sierra de Segura, where springs rise from limestone and feed small channels that were once enough to turn a millstone. The name means the Mill of the Springs, and it is a suitable one in a landscape with plenty of them. Around the mill the land is a mixture of orchard and scrub, with poplars along the water and a sharp smell of damp earth and mint on summer evenings.
Read the complete molino de las fuentes I write-up.
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molino de las fuentes I comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Sabinar.
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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about 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Sabinar. Next is back through molino de las fuentes I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete molino de las fuentes I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through molino de las fuentes I, late in the day. Next is Cortijo de la Rosa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cortijo de la Rosa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cortijo de la Rosa. That is the ride.
Cortijo de la Rosa → molino de las fuentes I is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molino de las fuentes I → Abrigo del Sabinar is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Sabinar → back through molino de las fuentes I is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molino de las fuentes I → Cortijo de la Rosa is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.