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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126 km from Yeste to Yeste, about 3 h 37 of riding. On the way it passes Albrigo de Jutia I, Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz and back through Albrigo de Jutia I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Spain's largest protected area is the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, and it spreads across a long stretch of wooded mountains in Jaén and Albacete. The Guijarral lies on its northern edge, in country close to Yeste, Segura de la Sierra and Orcera, where black pines and holm oaks cover steep slopes and rivers cut gorges between. Here, among rock walls, shelters preserve paintings, part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998, and the sites of the area, such as Zona 1 and the Collado de la Cruz, tell of hunting peoples who lived in these mountains long ago.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Guijarral is where the day begins. Next is Albrigo de Jutia I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as Spain gets. The village sits in the southern corner of the province of Albacete, where the Sierra de Segura and the mountains of Murcia and Granada meet, in a high valley cut by the Taibilla river. Around it, in the ravines and rock walls, are some of the most important prehistoric painted shelters in the country, and the Abrigo de Jutia is one of them. The Nerpio sites belong to the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, and several of them, including the famous shelters of the Solana de las Covachas, show hunters, archers and animals painted in the Levantine style. Guided visits are organised from the village; ask locally about access and opening times, because the sites are protected and not all are open.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Albrigo de Jutia I comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz.
The Collado de la Cruz is a saddle in the wild Sierra del Segura, in the south-west corner of Albacete province, and the shelter here belongs to one of the richest regions of prehistoric painting in Spain. Nerpio, the village about three and a half kilometres away, sits at over a thousand metres and is surrounded by dozens of rock-art sites, in both the Levantine style and the later schematic style, which uses simple dots, lines and stick-like figures. The Levantine paintings are protected by UNESCO as part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz. Next is back through Albrigo de Jutia I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Albrigo de Jutia I, late in the day. Next is Guijarral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guijarral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Guijarral. That is the ride.
Guijarral → Albrigo de Jutia I is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albrigo de Jutia I → Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz → back through Albrigo de Jutia I is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Albrigo de Jutia I → Guijarral is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.