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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Nerpio it runs 132 km to Nerpio; allow about 3 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo, Abrigo de las Cañadas I and back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Nerpio is the kind of place that makes you check the map twice. It sits at the head of the Taibilla valley in the far south-west of Albacete province, on a high plateau more than a kilometre above sea level, in the Sierra de Segura, surrounded by mountains and reachable only by long and winding roads. The village is small, with about 1,600 people, and the countryside around it is a mix of cherry orchards, almond groves, pasture and pine forest, with limestone crags and the cold, clear water of the Taibilla river cutting through the valley floor.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fuente Serrano I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo.
Nerpio sits high in the Sierra del Segura, in the southwest of Albacete, about eleven hundred metres up, and it feels like an outpost of the Andalusian mountains that happens to be in Castile-La Mancha. The village is small, with roughly sixteen hundred people, and the countryside around is a deep, rumpled landscape of pine forest, rock outcrops and tiny cultivated valleys. More than forty rock shelters with paintings have been found in the area, making Nerpio one of the richest places for prehistoric art in Spain, with paintings in red showing animals, hunters and abstract signs.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas I.
High up in the Sierra del Segura, where the province of Albacete meets Granada and Jaén, the village of Nerpio sits at around eleven hundred metres in a country of oak, pine and bare limestone. The Abrigo de las Cañadas, a rock shelter, lies about twelve kilometres from the village among its dry gullies, in one of the most thinly settled corners of Castilla-La Mancha.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de las Cañadas I. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo, late in the day. Next is Fuente Serrano I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fuente Serrano I. That is the ride.
Fuente Serrano I → Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo → Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañadas I → back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo → Fuente Serrano I is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.