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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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457 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 7 h 53 of riding. The stops in between: Diosa madre, Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I, Guijarral and back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
A hornacina is a niche, a small hollow in a wall, the kind you find in a church for a statue. The Hornacina de la Pareja, the niche of the couple, is a small shelter near Nerpio, a kilometre and a half from the village, and the name suggests that someone once saw a pair of figures in the paint. You should treat that as a clue to how fragile and ambiguous these images are: a couple to one eye, a stain and a couple of lines to another.
Read the complete Hornacina de la Pareja write-up.
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Hornacina de la Pareja is where the day begins. 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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Diosa madre comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village sits in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, where Castilla-La Mancha meets Andalusia and Murcia, in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, at the end of long, winding roads. It is known for its walnut trees, which line the valleys and give the village its pride, and for its rock art: the hills around are full of shelters with prehistoric paintings, and Nerpio is one of the most important centres for Levantine art in Spain. The Abrigo de la Fuente de Montañoz is one of these shelters, near a spring in the hills above the Taibilla river.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I. Next is Guijarral.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I sits at 305 km, about halfway. Next is back through Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Diosa madre comes up about 382 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hornacina de la Pareja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hornacina de la Pareja write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hornacina de la Pareja closes the day.
Hornacina de la Pareja → Diosa madre is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → Guijarral is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guijarral → back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → back through Diosa madre is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → Hornacina de la Pareja is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.