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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From Vélez-Blanco it runs 352 km to Vélez-Blanco; allow about 8 h 59 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la fuente, Albrigo de Jutia I, Cañada de la Cruz and back through Albrigo de Jutia I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
A tejera is a tile works, a kiln where roof tiles were baked from local clay, and the name is common across the dry south-east of Spain. The Tejera on your map is near Vélez-Blanco, about two kilometres from the village, in the country that falls away from the Sierra María towards the plain, where red soil, almond terraces and clumps of pine and juniper make up the view.
Read the complete Tejera write-up.
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Tejera is where the day begins. 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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Abrigo de la fuente comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 116 km into the recorded legs you reach Albrigo de Jutia I. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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Cañada de la Cruz, about halfway. Next is back through Albrigo de Jutia I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Albrigo de Jutia I write-up.
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back through Albrigo de Jutia I sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la fuente comes up about 287 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tejera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tejera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tejera closes the day.
Tejera → Abrigo de la fuente is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente → Albrigo de Jutia I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albrigo de Jutia I → Cañada de la Cruz is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → back through Albrigo de Jutia I is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Albrigo de Jutia I → back through Abrigo de la fuente is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente → Tejera is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.