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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A 380 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 10 h 21 in the saddle. The stops in between: Diosa madre, Abrigo del Sabinar, Benizar V and back through Abrigo del Sabinar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Senda de la Cabra, the goat path, is the kind of name a mountain gives to the only way across a slope. It lies in the high country of the upper Segura, near Nerpio on the border of Albacete and Murcia provinces, where the Sierra de Segura folds into the Sierra de Alcaraz and the rivers run cold and clear. The painted shelters of the area, Gabar among them, are part of the large group of rock-art sites in the Nerpio district, which includes some of the best-known Levantine and schematic paintings in Spain.
Read the complete Senda de la Cabra write-up.
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Senda de la Cabra is where the day begins. Next is Diosa madre.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
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Diosa madre comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Sabinar.
The Abrigo del Sabinar lies in the remote mountains of north-western Murcia, near Moratalla, where the Sierra de Segura and the Sierra del Taibilla meet, and its paintings of human figures and animals, including deer and goats, are among the finest examples of Levantine rock art in the region. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the area around Moratalla and Nerpio is particularly rich in painted shelters. The landscape is wild and rugged, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and deep river valleys, and the villages are few and far between.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Sabinar. Next is Benizar V.
Benizar is one of those places that only a handful of maps bother to name. It is a hamlet belonging to Moratalla, in the hilly north-west of the Murcia region, close to where the province meets Albacete and the first ridges of the Sierra de Segura begin. Around it, in the rock faces and gullies, archaeologists have recorded a cluster of painted shelters, and Benizar V is one in this series: a stone overhang with faint prehistoric figures, part of the Levantine rock art that runs along Spain's eastern mountains.
Read the complete Benizar V write-up.
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Benizar V, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Sabinar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Sabinar sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
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back through Diosa madre comes up about 281 km into the recorded legs. Next is Senda de la Cabra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Senda de la Cabra write-up.
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Senda de la Cabra closes the day.
Senda de la Cabra → Diosa madre is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Diosa madre → Abrigo del Sabinar is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Sabinar → Benizar V is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Benizar V → back through Abrigo del Sabinar is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Sabinar → back through Diosa madre is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Diosa madre → Senda de la Cabra is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.