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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334 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 8 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Los Paradores, Los Grajos and back through Los Paradores. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Fuente Serrano I is where the day begins. Next is Los Paradores.
The far north of Almería province is not the desert most people imagine. Around Vélez-Blanco and María the land rises into the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park, a range of limestone peaks with pine and holm oak forest, high plains of cereal and almond and villages that can see snow in winter. Los Paradores is one of the rock art sites in this area, part of the UNESCO listing of the Mediterranean Iberian rock art, and the region holds one of the most famous painted shelters in Spain, the Cueva de los Letreros, home of the Indalo, a stick figure holding an arc over its head that has become the symbol of Almería.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
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Los Paradores comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is Los Grajos.
Jackdaws gave this place its name, grajos in Spanish, and they still wheel and chatter around the limestone cliffs where prehistoric people once sheltered and painted. Los Grajos lies in the hills near Alhama de Murcia, in the valley of the Guadalentín, where dry mountains rise above a plain of orchards, greenhouses and towns. The rock shelters here hold paintings in the Levantine style, and access is generally restricted to protect them.
Read the complete Los Grajos write-up.
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about 168 km into the recorded legs you reach Los Grajos. Next is back through Los Paradores.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Paradores write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Los Paradores, 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 → Los Paradores is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Los Paradores → Los Grajos is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Los Grajos → back through Los Paradores is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Los Paradores → Fuente Serrano I is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.