CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Velez Rubio it runs 245 km to Velez Rubio; allow about 6 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor, 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
There is a little figure on a postcard from Almería that you will see on car stickers, jewellery and shop signs across the province, and it started here. The Indalo, a stick-like man holding an arch above his head, is the symbol of Almería, and it comes from a painting in the Cueva de los Letreros near Vélez-Blanco. The painted figure, called the Brujo or Sorcerer, was found in the early twentieth century, and local people adopted the shape as a good-luck charm and a mark of local pride.
Read the complete Letreros write-up.
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Letreros is where the day begins. Next is L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor, 28 km on.
In the mountains of northern Almería, near the village of Vélez-Blanco, the Cueva de los Letreros holds a small painted figure that has become the symbol of the province: the Indalo, a human figure holding an arc over its head, which locals paint on houses as a good luck charm. The rock shelters around Vélez-Blanco, including the one known as Tello I or Cama del Pastor, the shepherd's bed, are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Levantine scenes to schematic signs. The landscape is dry and rugged, with the limestone mass of the Sierra de María rising above.
Read the complete L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor write-up.
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L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor comes up 28 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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57 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 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor, 29 km on.
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Read the complete L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor write-up.
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back through L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor comes up 142 km in. Next is Letreros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros write-up.
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Letreros closes the day.
Letreros → L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor → Abrigo de la fuente is 35 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 L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through L. Tello I. Cama del Pastor → Letreros is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.