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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A 186 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 5 h 03 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo de los Cerricos, Diosa madre and back through Abrigo de los Cerricos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 los Cerricos.
Above the Taibilla valley, Nerpio's higher ground belongs to goats, vultures and wind. The Abrigo de los Cerricos lies a couple of kilometres from the village, among the limestone crags and pine slopes of the Sierra de Taibilla, where the Spanish ibex clambers over the rocks and griffon vultures ride the thermals above. Rock shelters like this one hold some of the finest prehistoric paintings in the region, human figures and animals traced in red pigment, and they sit under World Heritage protection. Cerrico is a diminutive of cerro, a hill, so the name suggests a small rise in the ground.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cerricos write-up.
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Abrigo de los Cerricos comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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about 116 km into the recorded legs you reach Diosa madre. Next is back through Abrigo de los Cerricos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Cerricos write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Cerricos, late in the day. 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.
Back at Fuente del Sabuco I. That is the ride.
Fuente del Sabuco I → Abrigo de los Cerricos is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Cerricos → Diosa madre is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → back through Abrigo de los Cerricos is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Cerricos → Fuente del Sabuco I is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.