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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88 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 1 h 36 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la Ventana I, Andragulla I and back through Abrigo de la Ventana I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Forget the idea of a single village, because Nerpio is a municipality of scattered hamlets, farms and fields across a basin of the Sierra del Segura, and the shelters of Prado del Tornero are right at its edge. Prado del Tornero II, six hundred metres from the village, is the second of its group and belongs to the unusual concentration of rock paintings that makes the Nerpio district one of the great sites of Spanish prehistory, covered by UNESCO's 1998 listing. You can walk to it from the village in a few minutes, which makes it ideal for a short stop between legs of a long ride.
Read the complete Prado del Tornero II write-up.
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Prado del Tornero II is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Ventana I.
High in the Sierra de Segura, where Albacete, Murcia and Jaén meet, the Taibilla river cuts a deep valley through limestone mountains, and the cliffs and shelters along its banks hide some of the finest prehistoric paintings in Spain. The Abrigo de la Ventana, the window shelter, is one of them, near the village of Nerpio, and it is part of the World Heritage site of Levantine rock art.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ventana I write-up.
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Abrigo de la Ventana I comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Andragulla I.
In the far north-west corner of the Region of Murcia, where the land climbs towards the mountains of Albacete and Jaén, lies Moratalla, a town of whitewashed houses piled up a hillside beneath a castle tower. Its countryside is surprisingly wild for Murcia: pine forests, rivers, gorges and limestone ridges, some of the greenest land in a famously dry region. The rock shelter of Andragulla is one of many painted overhangs scattered through these hills, part of the Levantine rock art sites inscribed together by UNESCO. Many are protected behind fences and need a guide; the tourist office in Moratalla can advise.
Read the complete Andragulla I write-up.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Andragulla I. Next is back through Abrigo de la Ventana I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ventana I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Ventana I, late in the day. Next is Prado del Tornero II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prado del Tornero II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Prado del Tornero II. That is the ride.
Prado del Tornero II → Abrigo de la Ventana I is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ventana I → Andragulla I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Andragulla I → back through Abrigo de la Ventana I is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Ventana I → Prado del Tornero II is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.