CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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244 km from Velez Rubio to Velez Rubio, about 6 h 09 of riding. The stops in between: Lavadero Tello V, 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.
Molinos means mills, and the name tells you how this corner of Almería was run. Above Vélez-Blanco, the sierra drops snow and rain on limestone that gives it back as springs, and for centuries the streams below were harnessed by grain mills, fulling mills and irrigation channels. Many were laid out under Moorish rule, and the system of acequias that still waters fields in the Los Vélez valley follows their pattern. The shelter at Molinos I, a bit under two kilometres from Vélez-Blanco, belongs to the rich cluster of painted sites around the town, in the Levantine tradition protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain. The ride also links it to the site known as Guijarral, a name that means pebbly ground.
Read the complete Molinos I write-up.
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Molinos I is where the day begins. Next is Lavadero Tello V.
Los Vélez, in the north of Almería, is wool and almond country, and its history is one of shepherds, noblemen and Moriscos. For centuries flocks of sheep moved between the winter grazing of the lowlands and the summer pastures of the high sierras along old drove roads, and the area had a thriving wool trade. The shelter here, one of a group around Vélez-Blanco, carries prehistoric paintings, belonging to the Levantine art tradition that UNESCO recognises.
Read the complete Lavadero Tello V write-up.
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Lavadero Tello V comes up 29 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 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lavadero Tello V.
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Read the complete Lavadero Tello V write-up.
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back through Lavadero Tello V comes up 143 km in. Next is Molinos I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molinos I write-up.
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Molinos I closes the day.
Molinos I → Lavadero Tello V is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lavadero Tello V → Abrigo de la fuente is 37 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 Lavadero Tello V is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lavadero Tello V → Molinos I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.