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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296 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 7 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la Viñuela, Letreros de los mártires, Cañada de la Cruz and back through Letreros de los mártires. 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.
High in the Sierra del Taibilla, in the borderland hills between Moratalla and Nerpio, the shelters of Fuente del Sabuco hold Levantine paintings of hunters, archers and animals, part of the rich rock art of this remote corner where Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha meet. Nerpio and Moratalla between them hold a remarkable number of painted shelters, making this one of the key centres of rock art in Spain, and an interpretation centre in the village explains the paintings and organises visits. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Fuente del Sabuco I write-up.
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Fuente del Sabuco I 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 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Letreros de los mártires. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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Cañada de la Cruz, about halfway. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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back through Letreros de los mártires sits at 128 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 270 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fuente del Sabuco I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuente del Sabuco I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fuente del Sabuco I closes the day.
Fuente del Sabuco I → Abrigo de la Viñuela is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Viñuela → Letreros de los mártires is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → Cañada de la Cruz is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → back through Letreros de los mártires is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros de los mártires → back through Abrigo de la Viñuela is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Viñuela → Fuente del Sabuco I is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.