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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Quesada it runs 226 km to Quesada; allow about 6 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Úbeda, Cerro de la Caldera and back through Úbeda. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Ivy is a modest plant to give a cave its name, but the Cueva de la Hiedra, the Cave of the Ivy, tells you something about the place. On a dry limestone hillside above Huesa, any cave that holds damp enough to grow ivy stands out, and the plant may mark the mouth of a shelter. The cave lies about four kilometres from Huesa and a little more from Quesada, in the folded limestone country between the olive plain and the wooded ridges of the Cazorla natural park.
Read the complete Cueva de la Hiedra write-up.
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Cueva de la Hiedra is where the day begins. Next is Úbeda.
In the middle of an ocean of olive trees, Úbeda rises on a ridge like a Renaissance city that took a wrong turn on its way to Florence. This town in the province of Jaén, along with its neighbour Baeza, was listed by UNESCO in 2003 for its sixteenth-century architecture, much of it the work of Andrés de Vandelvira, who built palaces, churches and chapels for wealthy noble families and royal officials. The Plaza Vázquez de Molina is the showpiece, a harmonious square lined with palaces and the extraordinary Sacra Capilla del Salvador, a funerary chapel built for Francisco de los Cobos, secretary to Emperor Charles V.
Read the complete Úbeda write-up.
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Úbeda comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cerro de la Caldera.
The Sierra Morena marks the end of Andalusia, the hilly rampart that the old road from Madrid had to cross before dropping into the Guadalquivir lowlands. Cerro de la Caldera, a hill near Aldeaquemada in the north-east of Jaén province, sits in the heart of this frontier, in a quiet landscape of holm oaks, cork oaks, rockrose scrub and sandstone outcrops. Rock shelters in these hills hold schematic and Levantine paintings, and the area is part of the wider World Heritage listing of Iberian rock art.
Read the complete Cerro de la Caldera write-up.
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about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Cerro de la Caldera. Next is back through Úbeda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Úbeda write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Úbeda, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la Hiedra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Hiedra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de la Hiedra. That is the ride.
Cueva de la Hiedra → Úbeda is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Úbeda → Cerro de la Caldera is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cerro de la Caldera → back through Úbeda is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Úbeda → Cueva de la Hiedra is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.