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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123 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 3 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la Viñuela, Abrigo de la fuente and back through Abrigo de la Viñuela. 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.
Nerpio sits at about a thousand metres in the Sierra de Segura foothills, at the far south-west corner of Albacete province, in a high valley that feels closer to Andalusia than to La Mancha. It is an out-of-the-way place, with orchards of apples, almond and walnut trees in the valley bottoms and bare limestone peaks above. The area is famous among specialists for its rock art: dozens of shelters in the surrounding gorges hold paintings of the Levantine and Schematic styles, and they are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998. The Friso de los Gitanos, the Gypsies' Frieze, is one of the better known, and the name tells you that locals have been looking at it for a long time.
Read the complete friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador write-up.
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friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Viñuela.
Segura de la Sierra is a village that looks like a stage set, and it is real. It sits on a conical hill above the olive groves of the upper Guadalimar valley, crowned by a castle, with narrow lanes of whitewashed houses winding up to the walls, and from the top the view takes in miles of olives, pine-covered ridges and distant sierras. The castle was a stronghold of the Order of Santiago, the knightly order that held much of this frontier in the Middle Ages. It has a Moorish bath house, restored and open to the public, a bullring built into the rock, and a medieval keep.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Viñuela write-up.
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Abrigo de la Viñuela comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Nerpio is about as remote as it gets in southern Spain: a village in the far south-west corner of Albacete province, deep in the Sierra del Segura, close to the borders of Andalucía and Murcia. It sits in the valley of the Taibilla river, surrounded by mountains, with terraced fields, walnut trees and pine forests on the slopes. The Abrigo de la Fuente, the shelter of the spring, lies in the hills about eleven kilometres from the village.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente. Next is back through Abrigo de la Viñuela.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Viñuela write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Viñuela, late in the day. Next is friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador. That is the ride.
friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador → Abrigo de la Viñuela is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Viñuela → Abrigo de la fuente is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → back through Abrigo de la Viñuela is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Viñuela → friso de los Gitanos o Abrigo del Cazador is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.