CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Puebla de Don Fadrique it runs 217 km to Puebla de Don Fadrique; allow about 5 h 09 of riding. It goes by way of Los Sacristanes, Fuensanta II, Prado del Tornero I and back through Fuensanta II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Cold water is a rare luxury in southern Spain, and a stream called Río Frío promises exactly that. It is a land of pine forests, limestone crags, deep river gorges and tiny villages, and the painted rock shelters scattered through these hills are part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Río frío is where the day begins. Next is Los Sacristanes.
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.
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Los Sacristanes comes up 27 km in. Next is Fuensanta II.
Fuensanta II is the sort of name only an archaeologist could love, a numbered rock shelter in the hills of northwest Murcia where prehistoric painters left a handful of figures on the stone. It is one of the hundreds of sites grouped under UNESCO's listing of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Moratalla area is unusually rich in them. The paintings are small, faint to the untrained eye and protected, so the real value of coming is to understand the landscape that drew people here thousands of years ago: springs, shelter and game in rough, broken country.
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54 km in you reach Fuensanta II. Next is Prado del Tornero I.
Nerpio is the place the road seems to forget. It lies in the far south-west of Albacete province, tucked against the Sierra de Segura and the Murcian border, in a high valley where the headwaters of the Taibilla and other streams gather. It has fewer than two thousand residents and one of the densest clusters of prehistoric rock paintings in Spain, dozens of shelters scattered through the surrounding crags. These are part of the Levantine and schematic traditions, painted in red and black, and covered by the same World Heritage listing as the painted caves of the Levante coast.
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Prado del Tornero I, about halfway. Next is back through Fuensanta II.
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Read the complete Fuensanta II write-up.
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back through Fuensanta II sits at 108 km, about halfway. Next is back through Los Sacristanes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Sacristanes write-up.
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back through Los Sacristanes comes up 135 km in. Next is Río frío.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Río frío write-up.
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Río frío closes the day.
Río frío → Los Sacristanes is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Los Sacristanes → Fuensanta II is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuensanta II → Prado del Tornero I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prado del Tornero I → back through Fuensanta II is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fuensanta II → back through Los Sacristanes is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Los Sacristanes → Río frío is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.