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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From Letur it runs 204 km to Letur; allow about 3 h 30 of riding. It goes by way of Cavidad V, Cueva del Gitano and back through Cavidad V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sorbas is the name of a town in Almería, famous for its gypsum caves, and it is also the name of a cortijo, a farmhouse, in the hills south of Letur in Albacete, which is a coincidence that has confused more than one traveller. Cortijo de Sorbas is a shelter in a rough, dry upland that belongs to the municipality of Letur, about twelve kilometres from the village, and the ride that visits it also includes sites such as Los Sacristanes and the Cueva del Gitano.
Read the complete Cortijo de Sorbas I write-up.
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Cortijo de Sorbas I 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 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva del Gitano.
Some places are remote on the map and remote in the gut, and the country around the Cueva del Gitano is both. It lies in the Sierra de Segura on the southern fringe of Albacete province, in the municipality of Nerpio, where the mountains of Albacete, Murcia, Jaén and Granada all run into one another. This is one of the richest areas for prehistoric rock art in Spain, with dozens of painted shelters along the valley of the Taibilla river and its side ravines, and the Cueva del Gitano is one of the smaller sites in that dense cluster. The art is faint, the walk can be rough, and the setting does most of the talking.
Read the complete Cueva del Gitano write-up.
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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva del Gitano. 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, late in the day. Next is Cortijo de Sorbas I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cortijo de Sorbas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cortijo de Sorbas I. That is the ride.
Cortijo de Sorbas I → Cavidad V is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cavidad V → Cueva del Gitano is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva del Gitano → back through Cavidad V is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cavidad V → Cortijo de Sorbas I is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.