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 Aldeaquemada it runs 309 km to Aldeaquemada; allow about 5 h 02 of riding. It goes by way of Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda, Abrigo del.melgar and back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Aldeaquemada means the burnt village, which tells you something about how rough the Sierra Morena used to be. This is a thinly populated corner of Jaén province, on the edge of the Despeñaperros range, and the shelter named after D. Pedro Mota is one of a large group of painted rock shelters in the hills. The paintings belong to what archaeologists call Levantine and Schematic rock art, small red and black figures of people, animals and symbols made by prehistoric hunters and later farming communities, and UNESCO listed the whole Mediterranean-arc group in 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo de D. Pedro mota write-up.
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Abrigo de D. Pedro mota is where the day begins. Next is Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda.
Úbeda stands on a ridge above an ocean of olive trees. In every direction, the province of Jaén rolls away in silver-green rows, millions of trees planted in geometric lines up to the horizon, and on this sea floats a town of honey-coloured stone that looks as if it had been lifted from Florence. In the sixteenth century, powerful local families who served the Spanish crown, above all Francisco de los Cobos, secretary to Emperor Charles V, poured their wealth into palaces and churches here, and the architect Andrés de Vandelvira gave them a Renaissance style of rare purity. Úbeda and its smaller neighbour Baeza were inscribed together on the UNESCO list in 2003.
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Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda comes up about 99 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del.melgar, 52 km on.
Quesada is a white town at the foot of the Sierra de Cazorla, in the province of Jaén, surrounded by an ocean of olive trees. The groves stretch to the horizon in every direction, a landscape that makes Jaén the world's largest producer of olive oil. Behind the town, the mountains rise steeply, with pine forest and limestone cliffs, and the Guadalquivir river has its source not far away. The Abrigo del Melgar lies in the hills just outside the town.
Read the complete Abrigo del.melgar write-up.
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about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del.melgar. Next is back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de D. Pedro mota, 52 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de D. Pedro mota write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de D. Pedro mota. That is the ride.
Abrigo de D. Pedro mota → Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda → Abrigo del.melgar is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del.melgar → back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda → Abrigo de D. Pedro mota is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.