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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136 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 4 h 14 of riding. It goes by way of Fuente Serrano I, Las Covachicas and back through Fuente Serrano I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Los Sacristanes is a name given to a group of painted shelters in the empty uplands near Nerpio, in the south-western corner of Albacete province. It sits on the high, pine-covered ground between the Taibilla valley and the headwaters of the Segura, a place so thinly populated that the nearest town of any size is the better part of an hour away. The paintings here, like those across this region, belong to the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art, and they are best seen with a local guide from Nerpio's interpretation centre.
Read the complete Los Sacristanes write-up.
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Los Sacristanes is where the day begins. Next is Fuente Serrano I.
Nerpio is the kind of place that makes you check the map twice. It sits at the head of the Taibilla valley in the far south-west of Albacete province, on a high plateau more than a kilometre above sea level, in the Sierra de Segura, surrounded by mountains and reachable only by long and winding roads. The village is small, with about 1,600 people, and the countryside around it is a mix of cherry orchards, almond groves, pasture and pine forest, with limestone crags and the cold, clear water of the Taibilla river cutting through the valley floor.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
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Fuente Serrano I comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Covachicas.
The Sierra del Segura, in the far south of Albacete province, is a world of its own: deep valleys, rivers lined with poplars, terraces of olive and almond trees, and white villages that look more Andalusian than Castilian. Letur is one of the most beautiful, a village of Moorish origin built on a rock above a stream, with narrow alleys, arches and gardens watered by old irrigation channels. Las Covachicas, a group of shelters, lies in the hills nearby, between Letur, Socovos and Férez.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Covachicas. Next is back through Fuente Serrano I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
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back through Fuente Serrano I, late in the day. Next is Los Sacristanes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Sacristanes write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Los Sacristanes. That is the ride.
Los Sacristanes → Fuente Serrano I is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuente Serrano I → Las Covachicas is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Covachicas → back through Fuente Serrano I is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuente Serrano I → Los Sacristanes is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.