CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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245 km from Velez Rubio to Velez Rubio, about 6 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Cueva Ambrosio, Abrigo de la fuente, Albrigo de Jutia I and back through Abrigo de la fuente. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Vélez-Blanco is a white village below a castle, and the hills around it hold some of the most celebrated prehistoric paintings in south-eastern Spain. Hoyos I is one of the painted shelters in the district, which sits in the Sierra María-Los Vélez, a natural park of limestone peaks on the northern edge of Almería province. The nearby Cueva de los Letreros is famous as the source of the Indalo, the little stick figure with an arc above its head that has become the symbol of Almería and appears on car stickers all over Spain. The shelter here belongs to the same tradition of painted art.
Read the complete Hoyos I write-up.
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Hoyos I is where the day begins. Next is Cueva Ambrosio.
Cueva Ambrosio belongs to the high, empty north of Almería province, on the dry plateau where Andalusia runs into Murcia, fifteen or so kilometres out of Vélez-Blanco. This is a landscape of broad, pale fields, almond and cereal farms, low limestone ridges and long skylines, with the pines of the Sierra María to the south and almost nothing built on the horizon.
Read the complete Cueva Ambrosio write-up.
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Cueva Ambrosio comes up 30 km in. 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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59 km in you reach Abrigo de la fuente. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente.
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Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente sits at 119 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva Ambrosio.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva Ambrosio write-up.
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back through Cueva Ambrosio comes up 148 km in. Next is Hoyos I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hoyos I write-up.
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Hoyos I closes the day.
Hoyos I → Cueva Ambrosio is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva Ambrosio → Abrigo de la fuente is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → Albrigo de Jutia I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albrigo de Jutia I → back through Abrigo de la fuente is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente → back through Cueva Ambrosio is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva Ambrosio → Hoyos I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.