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 271 km round trip from Yeste - roughly 7 h 17 in the saddle. The stops in between: Albrigo de Jutia I, Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz, Abrigo de la fuente and Zona 1. 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.
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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.
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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.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz. Next is Abrigo de la fuente.
Nerpio is about as remote as it gets in southern Spain: a village in the far south-west corner of Albacete province, deep in the Sierra del Segura, close to the borders of Andalucía and Murcia. It sits in the valley of the Taibilla river, surrounded by mountains, with terraced fields, walnut trees and pine forests on the slopes. The Abrigo de la Fuente, the shelter of the spring, lies in the hills about eleven kilometres from the village.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente, about halfway. Next is Zona 1.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village lies in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, close to the borders of Murcia, Granada and Jaén, in a high, wild landscape of limestone ridges, pine forest and deep river valleys. The area is known for two things: walnuts, which grow in huge old trees along the Taibilla river and are celebrated in local cooking, and one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric rock art in the Iberian Peninsula, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The generic label Zona 1 points at the hills near the village, where rock shelters with painted figures are scattered across the cliffs.
Read the complete Zona 1 write-up.
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Zona 1 sits at 67 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente comes up about 177 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz write-up.
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about 210 km into the recorded legs you reach back through 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.
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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.
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The route ends here after 271 km.
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 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz → Abrigo de la fuente is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → Zona 1 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zona 1 → back through Abrigo de la fuente is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente → back through Abrigo del Collado de la Cruz is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.