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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380 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 10 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Diosa madre, Abrigo del Sabinar, Benizar V and back through Abrigo del Sabinar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Diosa madre.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
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Diosa madre comes up about 100 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 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Sabinar. Next is Benizar V.
Benizar is one of those places that only a handful of maps bother to name. It is a hamlet belonging to Moratalla, in the hilly north-west of the Murcia region, close to where the province meets Albacete and the first ridges of the Sierra de Segura begin. Around it, in the rock faces and gullies, archaeologists have recorded a cluster of painted shelters, and Benizar V is one in this series: a stone overhang with faint prehistoric figures, part of the Levantine rock art that runs along Spain's eastern mountains.
Read the complete Benizar V write-up.
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Benizar V, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Sabinar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Sabinar sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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back through Diosa madre comes up about 281 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Cortijo de la Rosa closes the day.
Cortijo de la Rosa → Diosa madre is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Abrigo del Sabinar is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Sabinar → Benizar V is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Benizar V → back through Abrigo del Sabinar is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Sabinar → back through Diosa madre is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → Cortijo de la Rosa is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.